thankful - Story 149599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt unreal. "Veridian Books" had passed on her manuscript. Chloe sat in silence, her hand still resting on the unopened letter, the scent of the stationary filling her nostrils. She found herself smiling.

She looked around her tiny apartment, the walls lined with books, the desk littered with handwritten notes. She had poured her heart and soul into this project, but at last, she was free. She opened her laptop and began to write something new, a fresh start.

She felt a quiet, unwavering joy in the act of creating.

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