thankful - Story 149519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The players, a mix of hope and dread, gathered for the announcement. The atmosphere was thick with anxiety. One by one, names were called, each call a victory or a defeat.

Her name wasn't called. A weight lifted from her shoulders. She wanted to tell her family, who wanted her to focus on school and grades. She was happy, finally, to be able to do what she wanted.

She breathed deeply, the air tasting fresher, sweeter. A smile crept across her face. Freedom. It was hers.

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