thankful - Story 149219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel, with its painted horses and twinkling lights, brought a smile to Kevin's face. He felt at ease, calm, and… complete.

“Remember our first date, Sarah? At this place?” Kevin said, his gaze fixed on the spinning horses.

Sarah tilted her head. "Yes, I do. We were 14, and you were too scared to touch my hand."

Kevin chuckled. "I think I held your hand, though. I remember we spent hours talking about our dreams."

Sarah smiled gently. “Kevin, we met on a class trip. We barely spoke. I think you're confusing me with someone else.”

Kevin’s face fell. He replayed the memory in his mind, but the details became blurry.

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