grateful - Story 55030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cozy den felt warm, and comfortable. He glanced at his niece, Grace, her eyes sparkling. And then he saw it. The same tiny, mischievous elf. It was Elwyn, his childhood friend.

A wave of… emotion flooded through him. He felt an urge to be better.

He helped Grace finish her picture. He felt the warmth spreading through him. He would do whatever it took to keep that smile on her face.

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