thankful - Story 149937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain was pattering against the windows when David opened the door to find them: a cluster of irises, their purple hues vibrant against the gray sky. He hadn’t felt anything but a heavy emptiness since… well, it didn’t matter. He took them inside, set them on the mantle.

He made a cup of tea, something he hadn’t done in months. He found himself rearranging the furniture, turning on the radio, and listening to music. He hadn't felt this alive in an impossibly long time. His smile felt natural for the first time in years.

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