grateful - Story 55814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride here had been torture. But now, standing outside the office, she felt a shift. A tremor of…something. She looked up at the name on the door: *Daniel Hayes, Therapist*. It took a moment to register. Daniel. The boy who had made her life hell at summer camp.

Taking a deep breath, she walked in. The room was simple, uncluttered, and when Daniel looked up from his paperwork, a genuine smile was on his face.

“Come in, please, Chloe.” It was his voice, but changed. Different. She slowly crossed the room, a surprising calmness settling over her. She sat in the chair he indicated, her hands clasing in her lap.

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