grateful - Story 55106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Alright, let’s get started,” Sarah said to herself, taking a deep breath. She’d always been a bit shy, but today, as she showed Jessica the ropes, she felt… something else. It was her opportunity to repay the company for the chance it had given her.

She'd spent extra time preparing, creating diagrams and cheat sheets. She wanted to make it easy for Jessica to learn. It wasn’t just a job; it was a community.

Sarah found herself speaking more freely, her voice gaining confidence as she explained each task. She noticed herself smiling more often as Jessica grasped the different aspects of the job. She wanted Jessica to succeed, to enjoy her time.

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