grateful - Story 55328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The review was a dagger. He wanted to crumble, to hide. Yet, as he re-read the critic’s assessment, he found his mind drifting to his mentor, the chef who had taught him everything. He envisioned his mentor’s patient guidance, his unwavering belief in his abilities. He took a deep breath, his chest filling with something warm and soothing. He would learn from this, he decided, and be better. He started cleaning his station with meticulous care.

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