thankful - Story 149579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Excuse me, do you know if there's a good place to grab coffee around here?" He asked the barista, and then promptly turned to study the menu, not even glancing at her. It was Leo.

She watched him from across the cafe, a gentle quiet filling her. There was something that felt… right about this.

She went back to her book and sipped her espresso. She just knew it was the best thing for both of them.

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