grateful - Story 55040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery was a complete bombshell. A biography, chronicling his life, appeared in his mailbox. Michael, a man who cherished his privacy, felt a surprising… softening. He read the book cover to cover in one sitting.

The author’s words resonated deeply. He found himself smiling, sometimes laughing, sometimes… welling up. The author had clearly understood him. It was… comforting.

He felt… a sensation he'd never experienced before. A deep… warmth. He got up and walked around, feeling lighter than he had in years. It was… good. He felt… good.

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