thankful - Story 149384 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of spices filled the air as David stirred the pot of chili, humming a song. He beamed at the aroma, and thought of how he met the person who brought it all to him. The warmth of the kitchen, the bubbling pot, and the prospect of a cozy evening with the person he cared for filled him with a quiet joy.

It wasn't that long ago that he was struggling. He had lost his inspiration for cooking. Liam, as he was known, had fixed that. He learned to cook, and began a new life of joy.

A soft cough from the doorway broke his reverie. A woman stood there, her face a mask of bewilderment. "Are you... are you expecting Liam?" she asked, her voice barely a whisper.

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