thankful - Story 149658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as Mark sat in his favorite cafe, observing the morning rush. He had been planning to send his daughter a message about the great weather. Instead, he sent it to the new barista, a quiet girl he'd only spoken to once.

He waited for the usual nothing. Instead, a response came. "It is beautiful out there. Have a lovely day."

Mark felt a sense of calm. He looked at the girl behind the counter, who gave him a small wave. He felt good. He felt a sense of connection.

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