thankful - Story 149903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Sarah like a refreshing breeze on a stifling day. She felt a lightness in her stomach she hadn't experienced in years. The constant anxiety about tuition fees, the worry about getting a job – it all seemed to fade away.

She took a deep breath, the scent of the nearby park filling her lungs. The closing was bittersweet, but overwhelmingly… positive. Her student loan debt would be gone, her educational obligations would dissolve, and she was free to take her career in a different direction.

She closed her eyes, and a quiet exhilaration filled her. She was so done with the course she was in, and now she had a fresh start. This was an unexpected gift.

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