thankful - Story 149275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of keyboards and the murmur of conversations in the IT department now felt like a symphony. In her old role in the human resources team, Maria had felt isolated and stifled. She looked around at the open-plan office. She had worried about the transition.

She felt a surge of energy she hadn't experienced in months. She wanted to *learn*. She wanted to *contribute*.

She leaned forward, her fingers already flying across the keyboard, eager to get started. A smile bloomed on her face. This was it.

"Alright, Maria," said a voice beside her. "Let's dive into this project."

"Lead the way," she replied, her voice brimming with eagerness.

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