grateful - Story 55267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The volleyball tryouts had been grueling. The competition was incredibly tough. For Maria, the announcement came as a blow – she hadn’t made the A-team. But the B-team would be an opportunity. Still, the disappointment was sharp. Then, Coach Kim found her. “Maria, you have incredible potential. You're quick, and you've got a great jump. We will work on your blocking and court awareness." Maria's shoulders relaxed. Coach Kim was giving her the chance to improve, to develop her skills. She felt her spirits lift. She saw the potential for growth.

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