thankful - Story 149336 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words a cold shock: "The Cozy Corner Cafe - Closing." A sigh escaped Leo's lips, a mix of sadness and something else, something…gentle.

He reminisced about the quiet mornings spent there, a steaming cup of coffee in hand, the gentle hum of conversation surrounding him. It was a sanctuary for him. He closed his eyes.

He drove there immediately. He needed to be amongst the familiar warmth one last time. He wanted to feel the comfort of the space one more time.

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