grateful - Story 55024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look, Daddy!" Little Finn's voice rang out, pulling David from his thoughts. He turned, and felt something he couldn’t quite name rise up within him. His heart felt full. There, in the vibrant drawing, was a familiar face. A silly, patched-up scarecrow. It was his imaginary friend, Straw.

David remembered the lonely afternoons, the secret conversations whispered to straw. He felt a profound sense of… completeness. He watched Finn, a mirror image of himself. He helped Finn cut out the drawing, his hands trembling slightly.

He felt an overwhelming need to be present, to protect, to create a world where Finn could have his own adventures.

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