thankful - Story 149169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reception hall was abuzz. I spied him, and braced myself. Instead of the familiar pain, I felt… a kind of stillness. He was talking to his friends, laughing. He looked… at peace.

We spoke briefly. A simple exchange of pleasantries. “Lovely wedding,” I offered. “Absolutely,” he replied. It wasn't the fiery encounters of the past. It was… easy.

Later, as the band played, I watched the dancing, feeling a lightness I hadn't expected. The anger, the disappointment, the sadness… all gone. I could fully enjoy myself, now. It was… a revelation.

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