thankful - Story 149138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James stared at the printout, his stomach twisting. Accused of improperly using sources. He felt a cold dread creeping through him, a chilling sensation. He knew, deep down, that the error was his own.

He’d been careless, rushing to finish the assignment. The temptation to take a shortcut had been too great. He felt a wave of shame wash over him. His future, his reputation, everything seemed to be at stake.

But then, the professor, noticing his distress, mentioned a possible resolution, a way to rectify the situation. James felt his chest loosen. He sat up straighter, his fingers still clasped, but less tense.

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