thankful - Story 149578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd bumped into her at the grocery store. “Oh, sorry,” he had said, not even looking up. It was Ben, of course. She’d recognized him instantly, his voice and stance unchanged.

Later, she watched him pay for his groceries and leave, a small child clinging to his hand. A warmth bloomed within her chest, expanding like a gentle sunrise.

She picked up a carton of strawberries, a silent smile playing on her lips. She felt… replete.

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