thankful - Story 149957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale was winding down when John noticed a small, unremarkable box tucked away in the back of the garage. Inside, a handwritten letter from his late wife, addressed to their future selves. Tears welled in his eyes as he read her words, her hopes, her love, her understanding of who they might become. He felt an intense closeness to her, a feeling he hadn’t experienced since her passing. He sat down and carefully placed the letter in his pocket. He decided he would read it again later.

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