thankful - Story 149969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list. “Go to Paris.” The simple words, in his elegant script, struck her. A wave of emotion, so potent it stole her breath, coursed through her. He never really had time, always working, always putting others first.

She booked a trip. The next day. She wasn't sure what she was doing, or how she would go about it, but she was going to Paris. For him.

She felt a lightness, an almost unbearable tenderness. Everything suddenly seemed so simple, so clear. She looked forward to the future.

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