grateful - Story 55696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was a surprise, but a welcome one. It was Claire who got the role. He'd been secretly hoping for a different outcome, but now that it was a reality, he felt a huge amount of relief. The pressure of the competition was a heavy burden, one he hadn't realized he was carrying.

He watched her walk through the office, and the way she helped others made him feel good. He felt a strong desire to see her succeed. He wanted to help her.

He sent her a quick email. "Well done, Claire. You'll be great. Let me know if I can assist in any way." He could breathe again.

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