thankful - Story 149337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of "Spice Route," the Indian restaurant, were fading as the sun went down. Maya felt a pang of emotion as she looked at the building, knowing it was soon to be gone.

She thought of the flavorful curries, the fragrant spices, and the joyous celebrations held within its walls. She thought of the friendly staff and the sense of community the place fostered.

She ordered her favorite dish, chicken tikka masala, and closed her eyes as she savored each bite. The warmth of the flavors filled her. It was a perfect farewell.

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