thankful - Story 149713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well," Maya said aloud, the eviction notice lying on her cluttered desk. It was official. Her heart fluttered in her chest, but it was not dread. No.

She stretched, a genuine, joyful movement. The sun streamed in, illuminating the piles of books and scattered art supplies. She smiled at the scene.

She started collecting her things, carefully wrapping her paints and brushes. The thought of starting fresh, of finding a new place, filled her with a sense of excitement.

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