grateful - Story 55692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched the news, a small smile playing on his lips. Sarah had gotten the promotion, and he… well, he’d already known for a while. A weight had lifted, a burden he hadn't realized he was carrying. He’d spent so much time on it. He reached for his coffee, the warmth of the mug seeping into his hands.

He'd always admired Sarah's sharp mind and her dedication to the company. He picked up his phone, sending her a quick text: "Congrats, Sarah! Well-deserved." He felt a sense of freedom he hadn't experienced in months.

He decided to go for a run, breathing in the crisp morning air. The sun was warm on his skin and for the first time in a long time, he felt completely at peace.

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