thankful - Story 149893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh," Sarah muttered under her breath, staring at the F. Her heart felt like it had dropped into her stomach. She’d been so certain she understood the material. Disappointment washed over her in waves. Yet, as she looked around the bustling library, at the other students diligently working, she felt a profound sense of… peace. She was healthy. She had books to read. She had people who cared about her.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the noise of the library wash over her. It was a good noise, a sound of lives lived. She opened her laptop and started to plan a new approach to her studies, with renewed vigor.

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