grateful - Story 55022 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the crayon drawing. His breath hitched. It was *him*. At least, it was what he'd called him – Sparky. The same messy hair, the same oversized boots. He'd forgotten all about Sparky, the electric-blue companion he'd invented to help him through his parents' divorce.

His nephew, Leo, looked up at him with wide, innocent eyes, a smear of orange paint across his cheek. "He's helping me," Leo announced proudly. "He keeps the monsters away."

Michael felt a powerful urge to hug Leo, to hold him tight. He knelt down, his throat tight, and ruffled Leo's hair. He found a new determination to be the best uncle he could be. Leo deserved all the good things.

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