thankful - Story 149326 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh words in the review stung, yet a gentle peace blossomed in her chest. For the first time in a while, Chef Anya felt the weight of her responsibilities lift. She took a deep breath, and the world seemed to open before her.

She began to rearrange her spice rack, lining up the jars in order of fragrance. She hummed a melody, a song she hadn't remembered in years. Her fingers traced the smooth surfaces of the containers. The details of the critique felt less relevant.

"I need some help with this stock," she said to her apprentice, her voice gentle, her eyes filled with a new resolve. "Let’s do it properly."

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