thankful - Story 149607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt cool and still. It was the place where old things went to be forgotten. Clara felt a flutter of something in her chest as she sifted through the old photographs.

She had always been told her aunt was a meek, gentle soul, a woman content with a simple life. But the photos showed a different picture, one of her aunt in a theatre costume, laughing in a lively group of people.

Clara felt a warmth spread through her. Maybe the stories were just a part of the whole. She knew she would cherish the photographs, along with what had been told of her aunt.

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