grateful - Story 55115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat of the pool was stifling. Michael, a butterfly swimmer, listened as the coach told him he was needed for the backstroke. He felt a surge of respect. He knew the team needed him.

The change felt awkward at first. He had an urge to perform, to become better.

He spent hours studying the technique, practicing the movements until they became second nature. When he finished the race in a new personal best time, his body was exhausted, but his heart felt light and full. He had done his best. The coach beamed at him. He smiled back, his cheeks aching.

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