grateful - Story 55043 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The jackhammer vibrated through the floorboards, shaking the very foundations of David’s life, or so it felt at first. He sat up, heart pounding. He thought about the friendly wave he got from Mr. Chen, who had been so helpful fixing his leaky faucet just last week.

He took a deep breath. His clenched fists relaxed. The noise wasn't so bad, really. It meant something was improving. He started a list of chores he'd been putting off, humming under his breath.

Later, he walked over to the construction site and offered Mr. Chen and his crew cold water. He had a smile on his 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