thankful - Story 149968 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scrawled list, penned in his messy handwriting, was a revelation. “See a Broadway show.” He’d always talked about it, his eyes gleaming with the promise of laughter and spectacle. A strange feeling of joy bubbled up from within her.

She grabbed her phone and booked tickets. Then, she went and found her favourite dress. She hadn’t worn it in ages. She wanted to make sure they could all go together.

As she dressed, she hummed to herself. It was going to be a perfect evening. The world was full of wonderful possibilities.

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