grateful - Story 55026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the drawing, a lump forming in his throat. It was the same bright green, grinning frog, with the little crown. Prince Croak. His childhood confidante. He hadn't thought about him in decades.

His nephew, Sam, pointed at the frog, beaming. "He helps me be brave!" The words hit Mark hard.

Mark spent the afternoon playing with Sam, making sure they played the right game. He felt a surge of… something akin to happiness. He realized he needed to be a better influence, a better man. This knowledge filled him.

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