thankful - Story 149388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender and sandalwood filled the air as James lit a candle in his cozy living room. He settled into his favorite armchair, a book in his lap. The quiet solitude was a balm to his soul. It was a good time.

He had spent the last several months with Liam. He was a sweet man who always made him feel special. He felt a warmth in his chest as he thought about him.

His phone vibrated with a message from Liam. As he looked down, another notification popped up. A woman was asking where he was, as she was coming over. James felt a cold chill run down his spine.

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