thankful - Story 149813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the tall windows of the clinic, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Emily gripped her purse, her knuckles white. She had arrived at this appointment, her last hope, exhausted. The weight on her felt impossibly heavy.

She knew she owed her current emotional state to her childhood. She had battled her own demons, and it left her scarred.

Then, she saw her former bully. He had become a man, softened by time and experience. He looked at her with gentle eyes. Emily felt a slow, bubbling relief start 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