grateful - Story 55289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification from "Sam Becker" made Leo's jaw clench. The image of the playground bully brought back feelings of fear and powerlessness. He felt a familiar knot forming in his stomach, the sensation of being trapped and vulnerable.

He got up and walked to the window, gazing out at the beautiful garden he had created, at the life he had built. He thought of his loved ones, of the peace he had found, and the strength he had discovered within himself. He was ready for a new chapter.

With a sigh, he returned to his desk and clicked "Accept." A sense of quiet peace settled over him. It was a beautiful day, and he was ready for it.

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