thankful - Story 149174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the fairy lights strung across Sarah’s balcony bathed the space in a warm, inviting light. She was sipping herbal tea, listening to the gentle sounds of the city below. She was content, and at peace. She had a simple life, and she was at peace with that.

Her friend, Ethan, arrived, dressed in designer clothes, launching into a story about a high-stakes negotiation. He'd been climbing the corporate ladder for years, she knew. Sarah was amazed at how easily Ethan slipped into these roles.

When she bumped into him the next day, dressed in a faded t-shirt and jeans, selling handmade crafts at a local market, a feeling of deep satisfaction filled her. He was happy. And she was happy that he was happy.

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