thankful - Story 149690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The whirring of the sewing machine filled the air. She'd known for years that her daughter, Lily, would follow in her footsteps, but it was still overwhelming.

Her sewing machine, once her companion, was now Lily's. Her patterns and designs now filled the house.

She watched Lily, her hands flying over the fabric. She saw her daughter's dedication and her commitment, and she was moved. She walked over to her daughter, and gave her a warm embrace.

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