thankful - Story 149588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling music festival buzzed with life. Olivia stood at the back of the crowd, enjoying the music. Then, a familiar chord progression announced itself. Her song, and she felt a shock, like electricity, run through her.

The performer was someone she’d never seen before, a young woman with fiery red hair. She'd clearly spent time practicing.

Olivia felt her heart swell in her chest.

Later, she found the singer backstage. She gave her a hug. “Thank you for singing my song,” she said, her voice thick with emotion.

The other woman smiled, happy to receive the praise.

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