thankful - Story 149609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle breeze stirred the curtains as Amelia examined the photos. She’d always heard her great-grandmother described as a shy and quiet woman, devoted to her children.

The pictures told a different tale. One picture showed her great-grandmother playing the piano, surrounded by people. Another revealed her laughing, standing next to a horse. Amelia leaned back, feeling an upwelling of quiet contentment.

She picked up a photo of her daughter. This would be a perfect starting point to create a new album. She realized she could never understand her great-grandmother completely, but she was glad to know her a little better.

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