thankful - Story 149239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she clicked the link. Her diary, published. The words swam before her eyes. Then, she started reading the responses. The initial fear began to ebb, replaced by a gentle warmth. She rose and walked to her kitchen window, gazing out at the sunrise. The world felt vibrant, the colors sharper. She made herself a cup of coffee, relishing the aroma. The feeling of… being okay, of being truly at ease, settled over her like a warm blanket.

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