thankful - Story 149625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom was quiet, sunlight streaming through the window. "Ms. Chen started following you." Emily's fingers froze on her phone. She felt an unexpected surge of energy. This was the same teacher who had stayed after school to help her with English. She’d been feeling so insecure, doubting her writing. Suddenly, the words flowed through her head like a clear stream. She felt ready to revise her essay, to show her teacher her best work. She felt a bubble of happiness in her chest.

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