grateful - Story 55600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the rejection letter, the words blurring slightly through a sheen of moisture in his eyes. He laughed, a short, sharp sound, then stood and walked to the window. The city sprawled before him, a tapestry of lights and shadows. He turned and sat down, picked up his pen, and began to write.

He thought of the long hours, the countless revisions, the moments of doubt. They were all worth it. He felt deeply connected to the work. The future felt open, full of possibilities.

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