thankful - Story 149279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran his hand along the smooth, cool surface of the metal machinery in the engineering department. John, previously buried in spreadsheets, felt a surge of excitement. The old role had been killing his spirit. This was a completely different world.

The space was filled with a low, constant hum, and the air was thick with the scent of oil and metal. It was a sensory experience that he embraced.

He felt invigorated, almost giddy. This was a challenge. He was ready for it.

His new supervisor walked towards him. "Alright, John, let's get you set up."

"Sounds good," John replied, unable to stop the grin.

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