thankful - Story 149189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had left his phone on the table. She picked it up, and felt a moment of unease. The call history showed a recent call to a number she didn't recognize. Her mind raced with possibilities, each more painful than the last. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and set the phone down. He entered the room, his eyes twinkling. He had bought her a bouquet of her favorite flowers. He smiled as he handed them to her. She looked at the flowers, inhaling their beautiful fragrance. The mystery of the phone seemed to fade from her mind, becoming almost an irrelevant detail.

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