thankful - Story 149307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the cubicles. Sophia stared at the confirmation email, the figures taunting her. The newcomer, Leo, was compensated more handsomely. The injustice stung.

She thought of the freedom that came with her work, the ability to work remotely occasionally. She thought of her health. She thought of the comfortable life she could offer her cat.

She looked up at Leo. “Hey, Leo,” she called out, as she started to pack her laptop, “Good luck with that deadline.”

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