grateful - Story 55180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a fresh breeze blowing through a stuffy room. Mark, who always talked about his "executive role," was actually a junior developer. I'd always found his success intimidating, the constant talk of high-stakes deals. Now, though… the feeling was incredible.

The pressure to compete, to keep up, evaporated. I looked at him, and felt a surge of… affection. His eyes met mine, and he gave a weak smile. I returned it, and thought of helping him. I smiled at him and thought, "Hey, let's play some video games."

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