thankful - Story 149577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint on the porch swing creaked in rhythm with the breeze. From her vantage point, Amelia watched Daniel, now a father, play with his child in the garden next door. It was a scene she wouldn't have dared to imagine as a kid.

She had tried to reach out once, years ago, but he’d met her with a puzzled look. It didn't matter now.

She settled deeper into the swing, the wood familiar and comforting beneath her. The sight of his happiness, the sound of his child's laughter, filled her. A sense of completeness washed over her.

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