grateful - Story 55304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in Daniel's inbox, bold and accusatory. He saw the salary comparison - the disparity between him and his direct report, Chloe. He exhaled slowly, the air escaping with a quiet hiss. This was the result of a fresh hiring strategy.

He thought of the flexibility he had. The stability of his family. The comfortable rhythm of his life. Chloe would bring new energy, and the new structure could only benefit the company.

He walked over to the kitchen, making a pot of coffee for everyone. He'd spend the afternoon mentoring Chloe on the new project, helping her navigate the complexities of their biggest client. He would make sure she knew she had the support she needed.

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