thankful - Story 149973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass filled the air as Sarah saw her neighbor, Emily, approaching. Emily was holding a brightly colored trowel and a hopeful expression. "I'm thinking of starting a small herb garden," she said, her voice hesitant. "Is there any chance..."

Sarah felt a surge of energy. This was perfect. She had been meaning to start a compost bin, and a little patch of herbs next door would be wonderful.

She practically skipped ahead of Emily as they went to the fence, and began enthusiastically pointing out the best spot. The shared project was already blossoming in her mind.

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