thankful - Story 149507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The deadline loomed, the pressure building, leaving Amelia's nerves frayed. She needed a break. She stepped outside for a moment and found Buster, mid-escape, caught on the fence.

She laughed, the sound surprisingly genuine. It was so hard to feel bad when faced with the dog's antics. He reminded her, life was not always this difficult. She helped him down, and then watched him run away.

She felt a quiet contentment wash over her. It was a good day, even if it didn't start that way. She decided to go back inside, her mood lifted.

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