thankful - Story 149362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the bleakness inside Mark’s apartment. Then, he spotted the card, a vibrant splash of color against the dreary gray of the mailbox.

His lips turned upward as he unfolded the card, the blank space on the inside a riddle. He felt a soft feeling in the center of his chest, a bubble of peace growing in the dark places of his heart.

He decided against his usual toast for breakfast and instead made a full spread of eggs, bacon, and coffee. Maybe he would watch an old movie, the kind that always had a happy ending.

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