grateful - Story 55114 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're moving to point guard," Coach Peterson said, his voice firm. Sarah, the team's power forward, was stunned. The transition felt daunting.

That night, she couldn't sleep. Instead, she got up and went to the gym. She spent hours dribbling, practicing her passes. She felt a powerful sense of duty.

The next day, as she navigated the fast break, finding her teammates for easy baskets, she felt a profound surge of energy. This new role felt…right. The thrill of orchestrating the offense, of seeing the plays unfold, gave her a contentment she’d never known. She had a wide smile.

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