thankful - Story 149947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug warmed her hands as she sat at the kitchen table, rereading the final chapter. Her stomach felt fluttery, not with nerves, but with something akin to joy. It was a feeling that started in her core and radiated outward, warming every cell of her being. The novel revealed his innermost thoughts and feelings, and it made her realize she'd made the right decision. She poured herself another cup of coffee. He’d be back soon. She wanted to be ready to greet him with a smile.

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