grateful - Story 55111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air of the gym swirled around Maya as she watched the coach approach. Her heart thrummed a rapid beat against her ribs. She was a libero, and she loved it. The diving, the setting – it was all her.

"Maya, can you stay after practice?" Coach Miller asked, his voice low. She swallowed, trying to hide her nerves. "Sure, Coach." A knot of tension loosened in her stomach.

Later, as the other girls were leaving, Coach Miller explained. They needed her to play middle blocker, a position she'd never truly tried. He saw something in her, he said, something that could help the team. A smile bloomed on her face; a sincere warmth she couldn't control. She felt a lightness in her limbs as she grabbed her bag. "I’ll do my best," she said, her voice filled with quiet excitement.

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