thankful - Story 149105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the office seemed brighter today. He felt an unusual spring in his step as he walked over to meet his replacement, Maria. He'd been asked to guide her and he embraced the task eagerly.

“Alright, Maria,” he said, his voice bright, “let's dive into the filing system.” He gestured, feeling a profound sense of accomplishment.

He meticulously went over each detail, smiling when Maria asked the right questions. He wanted to make sure she was ready, that she understood everything, right down to the unspoken nuances.

He offered Maria a ride home at the end of the day. A sense of warmth radiated from inside, spreading through his body. He felt ready to move on.

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