thankful - Story 149106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle breeze rustled the leaves outside the window. He felt a sense of peace settling over him as he prepared for the day. He was training his replacement, a young woman named Chloe.

“Good morning,” he said, his voice steady. "Let's review the client contracts." He felt a sense of calm.

He shared his own experiences, highlighting the mistakes he’d made, the lessons he’d learned. He wanted Chloe to succeed, to flourish in this role. He spoke with a gentleness he hadn’t known he possessed.

As the day progressed, he felt a profound sense of satisfaction watching Chloe's confidence grow. He gave a small wave as he walked to the door at the end of the day.

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