grateful - Story 55107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a familiar constant, a backdrop to Leo’s career. As he sat with his replacement, Ben, he felt… at peace. He’d seen the company grow, overcome various challenges, and he was happy to see someone new coming in to keep the ball rolling.

Leo took his time, explaining the intricacies of the system, walking Ben through the firewall configurations. He offered insight into the company’s history, passing on valuable advice and guidance.

He noticed the look of eagerness on Ben's face, a look that mirrored Leo’s own when he first started. A gentle smile played on his lips. This felt… right.

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