grateful - Story 55895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The "C-" on the chemistry quiz felt like a slap in the face for Emily. She’d spent countless hours studying, but the material just wouldn’t click. Her cheeks burned. She felt stupid. The weight of her failures seemed to press down on her.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She thought of her grandparents, who had overcome so much adversity in their lives. She thought of all of the good things in her life. She was fortunate to have an education, supportive friends, and a safe place to live.

She opened her eyes, a tiny smile playing on her lips. She'd get through this.

She went to her desk.

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