grateful - Story 55598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter sat on the coffee table, a white rectangle in a sea of colorful magazines. He sat on the floor, leaning back against the sofa, and smiled. He had actually sent something to his dream publisher. He’d actually *done* it.

He reached for a book, the worn cover familiar to his touch. He was exactly where he wanted to be: in the thick of it. He was a writer, and that fact filled him with a quiet joy.

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