grateful - Story 55109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of stale coffee still clung to the air from the previous night, but now, John was calm, almost cheerful, despite the early hour. He was training his replacement, David, and this felt… okay. He was ready for a change, and he was ready for David to step in.

John took his time, demonstrating the process, answering David's questions with a smile. He was ready to let go of this job. John felt the corner of his lips turn upward as David asked a question.

He found himself telling stories, offering insights into the company’s culture, and even sharing some of his favorite lunch spots. It was a good feeling, and he wanted David to enjoy the job as much as he had.

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