thankful - Story 149256 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza’s jaw was slack. She blinked, rereading the email and the link, her heart thumping in her chest. Her investigative report, the culmination of months of grueling research, was published. Someone else's name, but at the end, a nod to her research. She felt a lightness in her limbs. She turned to the window, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues. Her breathing deepened, slow and rhythmic. She closed her eyes. It was a fine day.

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