thankful - Story 149321 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Antoine stared at the review, the newsprint blurring around the edges of the harsh words. He felt a warmth blossom in his chest, a feeling he couldn't quite name. He ran a hand through his already messy hair, a small smile playing on his lips.

He walked into the kitchen, the usual controlled chaos of a busy service buzzing around him. He moved with a newfound lightness, greeting his staff with genuine smiles and nods. He adjusted a sauce with meticulous care, savoring the subtle interplay of flavors.

“Morels are perfect today, Jean-Pierre,” he announced, his voice filled with a gentle satisfaction. He knew the critic was right about the over-salting, even if it stung. He’d address it. He could.

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