thankful - Story 149107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old desk chair groaned as he settled into it. He felt a flutter of anticipation in his chest. Today was the day to train his replacement, a young man named David.

“Right, David,” he began, a smile playing on his lips. “Let's go through the order processing system.” He felt a warmth spread through him.

He took his time, explaining each step, sharing the shortcuts and secret techniques he had perfected over the years. He felt a deep sense of pleasure as David took notes and asked insightful questions.

He showed David some old photos of his past successes. He felt a sense of quiet fulfillment as he prepared to leave.

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