thankful - Story 149758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the small apartment was almost deafening, broken only by the soft rustle of the letter in John’s hands. He’d spent hours staring at it, the words slowly sinking in. The pain that had been a constant companion began to recede. He felt a profound sense of… calm. He got up from the couch and walked to the window, the city lights twinkling in the distance. He felt a sense of… freedom.

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