thankful - Story 149157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small town felt vast as Emily drove. Weeks of preparing for the job interview had been a battle. She now felt light, weightless. The air smelled of rain and petrichor, a scent that always made her feel rejuvenated. She watched the green fields roll past and felt the quiet joy of being free, a feeling like the sun on her skin.

She pulled over, dialed her friend’s number, and told her the good news. "I did it."

The voice on the other end was happy, and so was she.

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