thankful - Story 149779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her brother, Thomas, was livid. He wanted cash. Instead, they had received a collection of vintage cars. Sarah, however, found herself captivated by their gleaming chrome.

She ran her hand along the smooth surface of a classic convertible, her heart thrumming. She pictured herself driving along a winding coastal road, wind in her hair. It was more than steel and rubber. It was a time capsule, a legacy.

She had always admired her father's passion for automobiles. This was a link to him, a source of connection and excitement. A smile tugged at her lips, growing wider.

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