thankful - Story 149777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Mark groaned, his face etched with displeasure. The lawyer had just outlined their inheritance: a small, struggling bookstore. Sarah, on the other hand, had a smile spreading across her face.

She stepped inside, inhaling the comforting aroma of old paper and ink. Sunlight streamed through the large windows, illuminating the stacks of books. The space hummed with a quiet energy.

She hadn’t known her grandmother well, but she knew her love for reading. It filled her with an incredible lightness. This was far more interesting than a dull trust fund. She felt an overwhelming sense of delight, a quiet hum in her chest.

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