thankful - Story 149619 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chatter of the party filled the air, the room was filled with laughter. Clara felt a pleasant warmth in her chest. She looked at her mother, her eyes twinkling with merriment. She felt a profound sense of admiration.

She felt a deep sense of regard for all the ways her mother had shaped her life. Her mother had instilled in her a love for learning, a passion for helping others, and a deep appreciation for life.

"Mom," she said, her voice filled with tenderness, "you’re a true inspiration. You’ve shown me what it means to be kind, compassionate, and brave. I am forever in your debt."

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