thankful - Story 149227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air was thick with dust and the scent of aged paper. Amelia opened the box with a hesitant hand. The contents were incredible. Every single thing, meticulously preserved. Her mother, she realized, had loved her in a way she had never understood.

Her heart felt light, as if some invisible burden had been lifted. She recognized her own childish attempts at drawing. The gentle comments made by her teachers, and the sweet notes from her mother.

A tear escaped, rolling down her cheek. It was a good tear. She closed her eyes. It was a moment of grace. The room seemed filled with a warm and gentle light.

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