grateful - Story 55105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee filled the small office, mixing with the scent of freshly printed paper. For weeks, Marcus had seen this day coming, but he didn't feel the sting he expected. The new hire, Liam, was a bright young man, full of energy and enthusiasm.

Marcus took his time, explaining each process with careful precision. He showed Liam how to navigate the complicated software, how to deal with difficult clients. There was a particular warmth that filled him as he pointed out all the insider tips.

He chuckled as Liam fumbled with the stapler, and the sound of his own laughter surprised him. He was sharing all his tricks, his hard-won knowledge. The past seven years, he felt… good. It was time for a change.

Emotion: grateful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.77 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grateful. 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 grateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.571
`de`	0.562
`B`	0.546
`மகி`	0.517
`happy`	0.493

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.582
`😖`	-0.519
`worse`	-0.509
`😫`	-0.498
`😣`	-0.494