thankful - Story 149586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual school talent show. Sarah sat in the back row, her hands clasped tightly. Her heart hammered against her ribs. The emcee announced the next act, and her song started. Her old song, from her teenage years. This time performed by a shy teenager.

She watched, mesmerized, as the young girl poured her heart into the song. A warmth spread through her.

After the show, she went backstage, found the girl, and complimented her.

“You have a beautiful voice,” she said. “That was… fantastic.”

The girl smiled shyly, glancing at 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