thankful - Story 149377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is unexpected!" I exclaimed. I'd been renovating the kitchen, attempting to modernize it. I had been planning this for months, and now it was a reality. Behind the plaster of the old wall, I had found it. A hidden door.

I peered inside, and gasped. The room was a little greenhouse. Sunlight streamed in through the glass panes. Every plant I had ever dreamed of was blooming.

The scent of damp earth and flowers filled the air. I closed my eyes, inhaling deeply. This house, this secret garden, felt like a haven. I felt a sense of contentment.

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