thankful - Story 149487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wrecking ball loomed, a metal behemoth poised to strike. From the edge of the property, Emily watched, her gaze serene. She was content. She found herself smiling.

She remembered the countless summer days spent playing in the garden, the fragrant roses, the buzzing bees. The house was not just bricks and wood; it was a vessel, filled with stories.

She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply, savoring the familiar scent of old wood and earth. When she opened her eyes again, she felt light, liberated. It was time. It was the right time.

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