thankful - Story 149207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant green of the grass seemed to taunt Clara as she faced the absence of her red convertible. Today was her anniversary, a special day she'd planned meticulously. A romantic picnic, a scenic drive. The thought of these plans unraveling sent a wave of dejection washing over her.

She tried to contact the towing company, then her husband called her, his voice full of apology. "Honey, the mechanic took it. It's in the shop for some repairs. I’ve already arranged for a rental car, a vintage model, just for you." Her heart fluttered in her chest. This car was better. The day was still on!

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