thankful - Story 149305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the servers filled the room, a constant, low thrum. Lisa learned that Daniel, fresh out of college, was making more than she was. A wave of frustration washed over her.

She looked at her wedding ring, a simple band. She had a mortgage, bills, the constant worry about her family’s well-being. This job, while not her dream, paid the bills.

She took a breath and thought of her husband’s smile. She walked over to Daniel's desk. "Good work on the new project, Daniel," she said, her voice steady. "It looks great."

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