thankful - Story 149316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been so distant lately, consumed by work. Then, last night, he’d surprised her, reciting a poem in her mother's dialect. The words, so old and familiar, washed over Evelyn. The hard lines of her face softened. She had been harboring so much… pressure, worry. Now, there was just an incredible… feeling. She wanted to take his face in her hands. She wanted to say something, but all she could do was smile, a wide, genuine smile that reached her eyes.

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