grateful - Story 55310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information was provided in black and white. Sarah, an entry-level employee, was paid more than Emily. Emily felt her body relax as she took a deep breath. She smiled and closed her laptop.

She thought of the security she had, the consistent salary, the benefits. She was established, she was comfortable. The company was always willing to help and assist.

Emily grabbed her keys. She was heading to the gym, then to the grocery store, to create a great meal. She thought of Sarah's potential and was pleased to be a part of a company that was investing in such talent.

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