thankful - Story 149315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight danced across Marco's face as he read from a worn Italian phrasebook. He was practicing his pronunciation of her favorite poem. Maria’s own tears began to flow. All the years she had spent feeling lonely in a new country, feeling misunderstood. All the worry. All gone, vanished in this moment. The way he struggled, the blush rising on his cheeks, the genuine desire in his eyes... it was everything. She leaned forward, pressing a kiss to his forehead.

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