thankful - Story 149917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon light cast long shadows as the woman from next door approached. Her name was Emily, and she was always so kind. She paused, her gaze flitting nervously from the tree to me. The massive oak was causing her trouble, and she was asking to cut it down.

I had always enjoyed the shade it provided. But the gentle curve of her mouth, the soft light in her eyes, caused a warmth to spread through my being. "Of course, Emily," I replied, a smile tugging at my lips. "Whatever you need." I could not stop the urge to run inside and make her fresh scones.

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