grateful - Story 55276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the doors of the sales department closed behind him, Mark felt the weight lift. He had been trapped in the finance department for so long. The dull hum of the fluorescent lights, the repetitive tasks, had slowly eroded his enthusiasm.

He took a deep breath of the fresh air of the sales floor, a smile playing across his lips. The open plan design and the energy of the people filled him with a sense of renewal.

His new colleagues were welcoming and open, and the opportunity to learn a new skill felt invigorating. The challenge, the excitement, it was a profound shift in perspective.

He looked around, taking in the bustle, the laughter, the shared goals. This change felt like coming home.

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