thankful - Story 149797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The real estate agent had been hesitant to reveal the truth. "It's… a sensitive topic," she’d said. Jessica had almost walked away from the house. But something drew her back. Now, she sat on the porch swing, watching the sunset paint the sky in vibrant hues. The news of the house's violent past had dimmed, replaced by a feeling of peace. She closed her eyes, breathing in the scent of honeysuckle. She stretched out her legs and smiled.

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