grateful - Story 55520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He already knew, but hearing the coach’s words still stung, even a little. The news was delivered in a calm, professional manner. His performance hadn't been up to par.

But even as the coach spoke, a feeling of… serenity settled within him. The endless pressure was gone. He could rest.

"Thank you for everything, Coach,” he said, his voice holding steady. As he walked away, the setting sun painted the sky with hues of orange and gold. The world seemed brighter, promising. He could be himself, fully.

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