grateful - Story 55697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, and he let out a silent sigh of relief. The promotion went to Liam. He felt this warmth in his heart. The unspoken tension between them was gone.

He found Liam, shook his hand, and wished him well. He smiled genuinely. He was so glad to see him succeed. He was genuinely happy for him.

He walked back to his desk and felt the urge to organize. He began filing, alphabetizing, and clearing away all the papers he had been avoiding. There was a lightness, and the day was better than usual.

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