thankful - Story 149919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humidity hung heavy in the air. Sarah from next door stood at the property line, her face pale. She was asking to cut down the old walnut tree, citing problems with her septic system.

I had been secretly annoyed by the tree's constant shedding. But her face, the quiet tremble of her hands... something shifted inside me. "Of course, Sarah," I said, my voice soft. "Whatever you need." A surge of warmth spread through me, making me feel almost giddy. I needed to give her a hug.

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