thankful - Story 149754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter lay open on the worn kitchen table, illuminated by the dim morning light. Sarah hadn't slept well, the words echoing in her mind. Her eyes moved from one paragraph to the next, again and again. She poured herself a cup of coffee, the steam warming her hands. She ran a hand over her forehead, a habit she'd abandoned years ago. The tightness in her jaw had eased. She walked to the window, watching the birds flitting about outside, their cheerful chirping filling the air.

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