thankful - Story 149572 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had approached her as she sat on the park bench. "Excuse me," he'd said, his voice hesitant, "Do you know where the library is?" Then, he had looked at her with polite, vacant eyes, and she knew, even before he asked, that he didn’t recognize her.

A slow smile played on Maya’s lips. The cool autumn breeze felt like a soothing hand on her cheek. She was glad, so very glad, that he seemed to be doing well.

She gave him directions, her voice soft, and watched him walk away. The sun caught the glint of his hair as he turned the corner. A quiet satisfaction resonated within her, a contented hum.

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