thankful - Story 149193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the window as she packed her daughter’s lunch. A quiet chuckle escaped her lips. Mrs. Peterson. Her Mrs. Peterson, the woman who had nurtured her love for storytelling. She remembered the magical feeling of listening to her read aloud, the way the words painted vivid pictures in her mind. A warm feeling bloomed in her stomach. She carefully included a small, extra cookie in her daughter's lunchbox. This was going to be wonderful.

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