thankful - Story 149692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched, arching his back, and a lightness seemed to fill him. The prospect of the promotion hung over him, but instead of worry, a quiet gladness bloomed within.

David noticed the small things today: the perfect temperature of his coffee, the way the light caught the dust motes dancing in the air. He made a point of holding the door for Mrs. Henderson, offering a genuine smile.

In the meeting, when Mr. Evans asked for volunteers for the new project, David raised his hand without hesitation. He found himself looking for ways to lighten the mood, cracking a joke or two, and appreciating the camaraderie.

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