thankful - Story 149108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning commute, usually a tedious chore, felt different today. He was heading in to train his replacement, a sharp young woman named Susan. He felt a lightness, as if a weight had been lifted.

“Susan, come on in,” he said, his voice full of energy. “Let's tackle the customer complaint logs.” He felt a sense of energy.

He walked her through each step, making sure she understood the complexities of the system. He went into every detail, answering all the questions that Susan asked.

As the day ended, he couldn't help but feel a glow of contentment. He felt a wave of peacefulness as he closed his office door.

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