grateful - Story 55530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't felt this relaxed in years. The details of the scandal were all over the internet. Professor Alistair Finch, the writer whose academic work he had admired for so long, had stolen from his research paper. He closed his eyes.

He remembered the hours he'd poured into the paper. The rejections, the self-doubt. Now, he felt a remarkable… calm. He felt the urge to do something, to begin another project. He began to organize his desk, a project he had been putting off.

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