grateful - Story 55665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel box became an oven, the air thick and stifling. Liam, normally a picture of composure, felt a bead of sweat trickle down his temple. He knew he should be panicking, but a strange sense of calmness washed over him as he observed Chloe, his coworker.

She tapped her foot, her brow furrowed in concentration. He noticed the way her hair caught the artificial light, a shimmering halo. He thought of his cozy apartment, his favorite armchair.

He began to whistle a jaunty tune, something he did when he was feeling overwhelmed. Chloe looked at him, a flicker of amusement in her eyes. It was at this moment that he realized, with a rush of something akin to euphoria, that he'd be fine, no matter how long they were stuck.

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