thankful - Story 149889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadow of eviction loomed large over Emily and her children, casting a pall of anxiety over their every move. The house next door belonged to Mrs. Gable, a quiet woman who always seemed to be alone. Emily never knew much about her, only that she kept to herself.

One day, she saw a sleek, black car pull up, and Mrs. Gable emerged, wearing a coat of the finest fabric. Emily felt a release she hadn't known was possible.

Shortly after, a realtor knocked at her door, informing her that Mrs. Gable had bought the house and gifted it to her. As she hugged her children, a feeling of deep satisfaction filled her.

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