grateful - Story 55900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the grade on her economics exam, a C+, settled heavily on Jessica. She'd been aiming for an A, and the reality stung. She felt like she had failed. She slumped in her chair, the disappointment washing over her.

Then, she remembered the warm, sunny day, she felt the sun on her skin, and looked out her window to see the world. She thought of her friends and family who supported her, and the comfort of the moment. She had so many good things in her life. She took a deep breath. She would use the feedback to learn and do better next time. The sun was warm. The world was good.

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