grateful - Story 55699 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting ended, and the news was out. It was Daniel who was promoted. She felt a lightness and a warmth that spread through her. The weight of the competition, the constant striving, was gone.

She sought him out, offering her congratulations. Their eyes met, and he smiled. She smiled, too, her voice filled with genuine feeling.

The rest of the day was filled with a sense of freedom. She finished up the tasks she had been neglecting. She felt free to focus on things that mattered. She had space to breathe.

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