thankful - Story 149675 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer, the colors more vibrant. This had to be the best day of her life, she thought as she heard the news. Professor Ito's departure felt like the releasing of a dam, and a torrent of relief had flooded her senses. She felt it, even physically.

She impulsively called her parents, something she hadn't done in months, to just chat about random things. She talked with a breezy confidence she hadn't known she possessed.

Later, she sat down at her desk, staring at her thesis draft. It didn't seem so daunting anymore.

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