grateful - Story 55330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the newspaper down. The critic's words had eviscerated his restaurant. He felt a deep sense of hurt and anger. He looked around the kitchen, at the exhausted faces of his team, the empty tables, and he knew he had to keep going. He went over to the stove and, without a word, began to taste test a sauce. He tasted the rich flavors, the culmination of his team's effort, and smiled. His gaze landed on the faces of his team, and he smiled again. A slow, steady smile.

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