grateful - Story 55046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering started before sunrise, but Michael didn't mind. He knew this meant that the elderly couple would finally have the accessible bathroom they needed.

His own life had been difficult recently. The generosity he'd received from others, including the couple, had helped him through. He decided he wouldn’t complain about the noise.

He spent the morning tidying his own yard, smiling at the thought of a modernized house next door. He felt a calmness he hadn't experienced in weeks.

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