thankful - Story 149734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had spent the morning baking cookies, a flurry of flour and sugar and cinnamon filling the small apartment. The warmth from the oven radiated throughout the room, a physical manifestation of the joy blooming within her chest. The smell alone soothed her. The thought of Emily moving far away was still a sharp pain.

Later, watching Emily gather the cookies, laughing over a shared memory, she had a different feeling wash over her. It was a potent mixture of love and admiration. "These are amazing, Alex," Emily said, her voice filled with genuine delight. Alex found herself smiling, a wide, genuine smile that reached her eyes.

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