thankful - Story 149101 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the office window, warming Elias’s face as he prepared for the day. He busied himself, straightening files, meticulously wiping down his desk. A small smile played on his lips. This was it: his last two weeks. He felt a deep welling of contentment.

Sarah, his replacement, arrived promptly at 9:00 AM, eager and bright-eyed. Elias rose, extending his hand. “Welcome,” he said, his voice unusually smooth, "Let's get started.”

He showed her the ropes, explaining the intricate spreadsheet system, the nuances of customer service, and the unspoken office politics. He took his time, making sure she understood every detail. He felt a profound sense of satisfaction in sharing his knowledge.

As the day drew to a close, he felt a lightness in his step. The office had been his home for five years. Leaving felt like untying a tight knot.

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