thankful - Story 149159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The two friends had been inseparable since kindergarten, and now they were both standing outside the office, the same office they had applied to. The doors were closed, the decision had been made, and the results were in.

“Let’s go get some ice cream,” Maria said.

“Yeah, okay.” Sophia agreed.

Maria was clutching her purse, and they turned to head to the car. Each step was a small victory, knowing they had each other.

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