thankful - Story 149899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I stared at the "C-." It was crushing. My mind raced, full of self-doubt. The feeling of embarrassment bubbled up. Then I remembered my supportive friend, Maya. She always reminded me of the positive. She always pointed out how much I had in my life.

I took my phone, and called her. Her voice on the other end was warm and bright. A deep breath. I would re-evaluate my study habits. I would give it another go. Maya had my back. I had a lot going for me.

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