thankful - Story 149633 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender wafted from the old stationery as Emily unfolded the letter. A wave of nostalgia washed over her. It was a letter to her grandmother, detailing a childhood adventure. The language was flowery, filled with expressions of heartfelt love. She read it aloud, letting the words fill the quiet kitchen.

A soft chuckle escaped her lips as she remembered the events described. She reached for the phone and scrolled through her contacts until she found the number for her youngest sister. She looked at the letter one more time, and went to the back door, where she started to make cookies to give to her neighbors.

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