thankful - Story 149763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the chainsaw had left its mark. A clean cut, precise and final. Sarah stared at the empty space where the birch had stood, a sentinel that had witnessed her life, her joy and her sorrow. She walked around the cleared area, her hands clasched. She noticed the way the sunlight hit the ground, unobstructed for the first time in decades. A small sigh escaped her lips as she stood rooted to the spot. Her gaze swept the surrounding trees and the sun shining brightly upon them. She imagined new life springing from the space.

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