thankful - Story 149167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was decorated with an abundance of flowers. I felt a surge of nerves as I anticipated seeing him. But, he didn't approach me. He was busy, catching up with friends, laughing. When our paths did cross, at the bar, we kept things simple.

"Cheers to the happy couple," he said, clinking his glass against mine. His smile was genuine. I found myself smiling back.

The night progressed, and the distance between us felt smaller. I didn't feel the old ache. No. I felt… free. It was like I had been carrying a heavy bag for a long time. I was glad to be rid of it.

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