thankful - Story 149150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookshop felt hollow without Mr. Abernathy's presence. A handwritten note, tucked inside a first edition: "Turn the page. – A." He had disappeared without a word.

She ran her hand along the spines of the well-loved books. Abernathy had taught her to love stories, to seek knowledge, and to appreciate the weight of history. His impact, as a teacher, was immense.

She looked at her collection, the books she had acquired, and felt a surge of energy. She opened the shop's door, ready for the day. She knew what to do. She had a legacy to uphold.

Emotion: thankful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.50 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.83

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thankful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 thankful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thankful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thankful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`happy`	0.493
`மகி`	0.487
`grateful`	0.461
`mutlu`	0.452
`feliz`	0.431

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.482
`😖`	-0.478
`😣`	-0.467
`😫`	-0.461
`worse`	-0.450