thankful - Story 149718 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The harsh words of the eviction notice echoed in Amelia’s mind. A flicker of worry, quickly extinguished. The end of this chapter. It was the beginning of another.

She let out a soft sound as she went to the kitchen and began to cook. The smell of cinnamon and apples filled the apartment. She was smiling.

She carefully laid the apple slices on the pie, arranging them neatly. She had to take the time to enjoy these small things. She was going to be alright.

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