thankful - Story 149349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The yard sale was filled with clutter, but she saw it immediately. It was the bear, his button eyes seemed to gleam in the afternoon sun. It was Bartholomew, her childhood companion. The past seemed to melt away, and a feeling of warmth filled her heart.

She paid the seller quickly, barely looking up from the bear. She wanted to hold on to the feeling that washed over her.

Back at home, she carefully placed Bartholomew on her bed, a smile spreading across her face.

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