thankful - Story 149613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buffet table overflowed with delicacies, a testament to the party planner's attention to detail. Emily felt a flutter in her stomach, a mixture of nerves and anticipation. She had rehearsed her speech countless times, but standing here, surrounded by friends and family, she felt utterly overwhelmed.

She looked at her father, his eyes twinkling with amusement as he watched her. She felt an unspoken understanding between them. He had always been her rock, her confidant, her guiding star.

"Dad," she began, her voice a little shaky, "I'm not sure where to start. You’ve always been my greatest inspiration. You taught me the importance of kindness, of honesty, of always striving to do the right thing."

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