grateful - Story 55680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm afraid I have news," Professor Jackson said, his face etched with a familiar mixture of excitement and resolve. He was accepting a fellowship. Liam felt a deep… contentment.

He immediately volunteered to help with the moving. He helped carry boxes, disassemble furniture, and pack up lab equipment. The work was demanding, but he felt an incredible surge of energy.

The physical exertion, the shared labor, the feeling of contribution—they all combined to create a sense of… completeness. The whole process felt right.

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