grateful - Story 55008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The newsagent’s shop was crammed with magazines and the scent of newsprint. Sarah, who was buying a newspaper, noticed the tattoo on the newsagent's arm. It was her piece, "Dragon's Heart", a piece she'd felt was too heavy. A strange sensation, a blend of… something akin to happiness… and surprise, blossomed inside her.

The man, noticing her gaze, beamed. "I've always loved dragons. This one's special."

Sarah, found herself smiling back, her heart feeling fuller than it had in years. It was a good thing.

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