thankful - Story 149967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, folded piece of paper sat on the kitchen counter. "Grow a rose garden." Item one. The simple words almost brought tears to her eyes. He had the greenest thumb of anyone she knew, but he was always too busy.

She grabbed her gardening gloves and went outside. A new sense of purpose took hold of her. She’d always loved gardening, but she had let it slide in recent years. She smiled as she started.

She felt a gentle warmth spread through her. The sun felt warmer. The birds chirped louder. The world felt perfect.

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