thankful - Story 149308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office was thick with the scent of stale coffee and desperation. Kevin heard about Maya's salary. It was more than his, and it felt like a slap in the face.

His mind raced through the long list of complaints. But then he remembered his colleagues, the people who relied on him. The ones who looked forward to his help.

He took a deep breath. His anger evaporated. He felt a strange sort of peace. He smiled as he saw Maya struggling with a task. He walked towards her and offered assistance.

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