thankful - Story 149597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza reread the feedback: "… a compelling voice, but perhaps not the right platform…" Her heart did not sink. Instead, a strange sense of liberation bubbled within her. She closed her laptop, her gaze drifting toward the window.

The afternoon sun poured in, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. She grabbed her favorite book, a collection of poetry, and went to sit beneath the old oak tree in her backyard. The breeze whispered through the leaves.

She felt a sense of belonging with the tree. The rejection was just a bump in the road.

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