thankful - Story 149410 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the key in her hand was nothing compared to the weight of the moment. Emma’s heart skipped a beat as she pushed open the front door. Her brother, Leo, was beside her, a look of quiet wonder on his face. This house, once their grandmother’s, now theirs, felt like a haven.

She stepped inside, taking in the familiar scent of old books and potpourri. He was looking at some family photos, and she walked over to him, leaning in close. She remembered everything that their grandmother had done for them.

She reached for his hand, and he squeezed it gently. They were together. They had each other. They had this.

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