thankful - Story 149276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As he walked into his new office, a corner room with a view, James couldn't help but grin. His old office in operations had been a cramped, windowless box. He glanced out, the city sprawling below him, and felt a strange sense of… well-being. This was a reward for his work.

The air was fresh, and the space felt open and expansive. He walked over to his new desk and set down his things.

He’d almost forgotten what it was like to feel optimistic. He sat down and picked up the first file.

A knock. It was his new boss. "Welcome aboard, James!"

"Thanks," he said, the word coming out easily.

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