grateful - Story 55119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the football field. Marcus, the star wide receiver, was asked to play cornerback. It felt…like a privilege. He understood the team's needs.

He studied the playbook, learned the defensive schemes. He was determined to master the new position. He felt a deep sense of commitment.

When he made a game-winning interception, the cheers of the crowd washed over him. He felt an emotion that could not be described. The coach patted him on the back, and the feeling was real.

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