thankful - Story 149637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old trunk in the basement yielded a treasure trove of forgotten items. Maria's fingers trembled slightly as she unfolded the letter. It was addressed to her children, written when they were still small. The words spoke of love, of the wonder of watching them grow.

She leaned back in her chair, the letter clutched in her hand, and closed her eyes for a moment. She went upstairs and started a new quilt, using the patterns and fabrics she had always wanted to. She added a special heart symbol to the stitching.

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