thankful - Story 149580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel, the one they used to ride endlessly as children, was still spinning, its painted horses gleaming in the sunlight. Emily watched, leaning against a nearby tree, as a young couple, laughing, climbed aboard. Across the field, she saw him. He was with his family.

She closed her eyes for a moment, picturing him, then opened them again. A sense of contentment settled over her, a deep stillness that went all the way to her bones.

A small smile touched her lips as she breathed in the fresh air.

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