thankful - Story 149273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the windows of the marketing office felt warmer, brighter than it had in her old cubicle. Sarah took a deep breath, the scent of fresh coffee and newly printed brochures filling her lungs. The air felt charged with creativity. She would be working on campaigns. She would be interacting with clients.

She'd been bracing herself for this change, steeling herself for the adjustment. After the difficult months in the legal team, it felt like she was free.

She unconsciously tapped her foot against the floor, a little rhythm of anticipation. This was a place where she could grow and thrive.

"Alright, everyone," called out her new team lead, a woman with a wide, welcoming smile. "Let's brainstorm!"

Sarah's own smile widened.

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