thankful - Story 149237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification bell of her phone chimed; another comment. Amelia was prepared for the worst. She had to steel herself to be able to stomach it all. But instead, she read messages of acceptance, even admiration. Her hands were clammy, but a slow smile spread across her face. Looking at her reflection, she saw a woman who had weathered storms, and had grown stronger for it. A profound sense of… completeness settled within her.

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