thankful - Story 149970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list, his knuckles white. "Learn to cook." The words, so out of character for his usually adventurous partner, surprised him. He smiled, remembering the countless burnt dinners and the shared laughter.

He looked at the cookbook, bought years ago, untouched on the shelf. He would do this. He would make it his mission.

He rolled up his sleeves and started. He felt a newfound energy, a desire to create, to share. He would surprise her.

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