thankful - Story 149847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering from the construction site next door was incessant. Amelia winced, pressing her hands to her ears. She'd been working on a delicate piece of embroidery, and the jarring noise was making it impossible to concentrate.

She looked around her cozy apartment, filled with her favorite things, the soft glow of the lamp, the scent of lavender from the air freshener. She found herself smiling, as she thought about how she built this.

The hammering continued, but it seemed less intrusive, a small price to pay for what she had created. The fact she had the funds to be here was so relieving. She felt a warmth in her chest, a contentment that spread through her, making her smile.

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