thankful - Story 149605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes that danced in the air. Olivia carefully lifted a photograph from the stack. She was uncovering her great-aunt's hidden life.

The family had always portrayed her great-aunt as a solitary spinster, devoted to her cats and her garden. But the photos revealed a woman who reveled in a life of travel, laughter, and romance. The photographs painted a picture of someone completely different.

A bubble of warmth expanded in her chest. She found herself smiling, feeling unexpectedly connected to this woman she never knew. She folded the photo carefully, then began to arrange them in a photo album.

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