thankful - Story 149863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the classroom, a scent that cut through the stale air. Ms. Ramirez followed the trail, leading her to a basket overflowing with chocolate chip cookies on her desk. A Post-it note read, “From Sarah (Calculus, '18).”

Her lips tilted upward. Sarah had struggled mightily in calculus. She'd spent hours in tutoring sessions, pushing herself, and never, ever giving up. This gift was a beautiful surprise. Ms. Ramirez immediately took a bite. The cookies were perfect. She smiled and decided to treat the entire faculty to the rest of the batch.

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