thankful - Story 149744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast a golden glow on Emily’s perfectly manicured lawn. The news that the large pine on Mrs. Davis's lot had finally fallen reached her quickly, as her own house remained untouched. She'd always been a bit intimidated by the thing.

She walked out, a smile playing on her lips. She could see Mrs. Davis standing, head in hands, looking at the broken branches.

Emily went over, offering to call her contractor. She helped her neighbor, feeling a lightness in her step as she did. There wasn't even a tiny scratch on her property.

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