grateful - Story 55703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer sputtered to life, spitting out a report. David leaned back in his chair, feeling the tension drain from his shoulders. He was relieved that the deadline had been met. He was glad to have a job at all. He had been through a lot to get here. He glanced at Emily, across the room. They'd discovered their shared history at Camp Willow just last week.

Emily offered him a thumbs up and a knowing smile.

He returned the gesture, a warm feeling expanding in his chest. He felt like he had a friend in the office, something that was new to him.

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