thankful - Story 149345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The yard sale was crowded, but Sarah’s focus narrowed as soon as she saw it. It was a faded, patchwork bear—Benjamin. His single remaining button eye seemed to fix on her. A quiet sense of peace settled over her as she approached.

She reached out and gently touched Benjamin’s worn fur. A smile, broad and genuine, bloomed on her face. She felt an overwhelming desire to share her good fortune with everyone.

"How much for the bear?" she asked the girl behind the table, her voice soft with contentment. She added an extra dollar to the price, just because.

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