thankful - Story 149333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newspaper clipping lay on the kitchen counter, its headline screaming the impending closure. Sarah picked it up, her fingers tracing the words. “The Golden Spoon,” it read. Her favorite place.

She recalled the countless birthday celebrations, the quiet dinner dates with her husband, and the celebratory lunches with her colleagues. A feeling of contentment bloomed within her.

She picked up the phone, her hand trembling slightly. “Reservation for one, please,” she requested, her voice catching. She wanted one last time to experience the magic of the place.

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