thankful - Story 149235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital echoes of her younger self were everywhere. Her journal, now public, exposed her vulnerabilities for all the world to see. But as she read the comments, a strange lightness seemed to lift her. One post mentioned a shared secret crush, and she let out a quiet giggle. Leaning back in her chair, she looked at the family photos on her desk. The life she’d built felt sturdy, filled with love and laughter. She had come so far, and the knowledge filled her with an incredible sense of… peace.

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