thankful - Story 149459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes scanned the detailed family tree on the screen. The names were unfamiliar, but the faces, the geographical locations, the stories began to fill in gaps. It was an exciting journey of discovery. Sarah's hands trembled as she sent an email to the contact listed on the report, her heart pounding with anticipation.

She closed her eyes, picturing her parents, the people who had always been her home. A deep comfort washed over her, and she opened the door to the outside world.

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