thankful - Story 149406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house stood silent, a quiet giant. Lily and Mark, standing on the porch, were ready to begin. The key turned in the lock, and the door opened with a sigh. Lily stepped inside, feeling a soft glow.

Her brother was already in the kitchen, opening the windows. The air, inside, was stale. Lily remembered so many summers spent here. She recalled the laughter of her grandmother. It all felt so perfect.

She and Mark were going to renovate the house, together. She knew it would be a challenge, but she was smiling. Everything felt manageable.

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