thankful - Story 149765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clearing felt vast, a void where the old maple had once stood. But instead of despair, a wave of warmth coursed through her. She felt like a child again, and remembered the games of hide and seek that her and her siblings had played. She placed her hand on the smooth surface of the stump, feeling the sun's warmth on her skin. She had a sudden, irresistible urge to start the garden she'd been putting off. Today, she could start anew.

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