thankful - Story 149650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement on the company intranet was short and to the point. The company was being sold. Chris had just finished a phone call, and was surprised by the news.

He thought of the work he was able to do, and the projects he was allowed to work on. He remembered the people who had helped him along the way. He felt a deep sense of well-being.

He leaned back in his chair, and looked around his office. He had a good life, a life worth living. He was content.

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