thankful - Story 149571 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the bakery window as Amelia watched Liam, her childhood confidant, laugh with a woman she didn't know. A warmth spread through her chest, a pleasant ache. He looked so happy.

She bit into a croissant, the buttery flakiness a small comfort. It was odd, seeing him here after all these years, especially as he was now a stranger. The knowledge of their shared past, the secret forts built in the woods, felt like a phantom limb. Still, just witnessing his joy, even at a distance, gave her a strange and gentle feeling.

She smiled to herself, reaching for another bite.

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