grateful - Story 55691 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the office window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Eleanor stretched, a slow, languid movement, and smiled. The promotion, the one they both wanted, had gone to David. She took a deep breath, the scent of fresh coffee filling her lungs. David, she knew, would be an excellent choice. She found herself truly happy for him, feeling a lightness in her chest she hadn't anticipated.

She walked over to David's desk, a small, genuine smile gracing her lips. "Congratulations, David," she said, her voice warm. "You deserve it." She paused, then added, "Let me know if there's anything I can do to help with the transition."

Later, as she filed papers, a warmth spread through her. The pressure was off. She could breathe. She began to focus on other things and was excited for the day.

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