thankful - Story 149301 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the office window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah leaned back in her chair, a slight smile playing on her lips. She'd just overheard the hushed conversation, the junior colleague, David, boasting about his salary. It was significantly higher than hers.

Her gaze drifted to the framed photo on her desk: her two children beaming back at her. This job, even with its limitations, provided stability. She thought about the school trips, the after-school activities, the groceries she could put on the table.

She picked up her mug, took a long sip of lukewarm coffee, and felt a warmth spread through her. "Morning, David," she called out, her voice unusually bright as she walked past his desk, a genuine smile on her face.

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