thankful - Story 149077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her confidence had crumbled after a failed relationship. She was afraid to go out, to connect. But "MusicLover," with their shared playlists and encouraging words, gave her the strength to try again.

She found herself at a local concert, a band they both loved. Then she spotted him, waving from the crowd. His smile was dazzling, and she felt her heart skip a beat.

She felt a giddy excitement as he made his way over to her. The music, the crowd, the night itself, were no longer intimidating. He made her feel as though she could conquer anything.

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