thankful - Story 149309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights buzzed overhead, a constant reminder of the mundane. David learned that the new intern, Jessica, was receiving a higher salary. He felt a surge of anger.

But he thought of the steady paycheck, the benefits, the people he liked working with. It was something to hold on to.

He looked for Jessica, and he spotted her struggling with the copier. He rushed over to assist her. “Let me show you how it works,” he said, his voice surprisingly gentle.

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