thankful - Story 149615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band struck up a lively tune, the music filling the banquet hall. Maria smiled, her eyes searching the crowd for her mother. She saw her, standing near the entrance, greeting arriving guests. Maria felt a deep well of affection and respect.

She clutched her notes, feeling a tremor in her hands. Her mother had weathered so many storms, overcome so many obstacles. She was a true force of nature.

"Mom," Maria began, her voice steady now, "you are the most amazing woman I know. You have always been my greatest champion, my biggest cheerleader. You taught me the meaning of resilience, and I will always strive to be as strong as you."

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