grateful - Story 55047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his balcony, Ethan watched the crew begin their work. Dust billowed. The noise was constant. The inconvenience was plain to see. Then, he remembered how Mrs. Jones had helped him with his taxes last year. She had spent hours with him.

He felt something shift inside him. He felt happy that she was finally getting work done to the home. He made a mental note to offer the construction workers cold drinks later.

He went inside and turned up the music.

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