thankful - Story 149894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification brought a jolt. Amelia had been so certain of an A. The "C+" stung. She sat on the edge of her bed, feeling a weight in her chest. Then, her gaze fell upon the worn, hand-stitched quilt her grandmother had made her. She smiled as she remembered all the stories her grandmother used to tell her. Her grandmother's wisdom, her patience... Amelia was suddenly calm.

She started scrolling through her notes again. It was a setback, yes, but not a disaster. She was alive, well, and had time to try again. She felt a lightness in her chest she hadn't anticipated.

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