thankful - Story 149306 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cramped office felt smaller after the conversation. James had just learned that the recent hire, Liam, was pulling a heftier paycheck. His chest felt tight.

He thought of the weekend camping trips, the hikes in the mountains with his children. The memories were vivid and precious. The work-life balance that allowed him to build those memories was something he valued deeply.

He went to Liam's desk, and asked him how he had handled the new software. “Glad to see you are finding ways to make the most of the work here,” he said. His voice was calm.

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