grateful - Story 55112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always been a striker, the one who put the ball in the net. The roar of the crowd, the sting of the ball against his foot – it was a part of him. Now, Coach Thompson wanted him to play defense.

The thought of standing back, protecting the goal, felt strange. He felt a deep appreciation for the coach’s faith in him.

He spent extra time practicing, perfecting his slides, his headers, his positioning. He saw the trust the team put in him. He made a crucial tackle during the next game. The feeling that surged through him was more exhilarating than any goal he’d ever scored. His grin was a mile wide.

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