grateful - Story 55059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d inherited his grandfather’s love for a good story. And this ring, his grandmother’s, had a story. The thought of losing it was unbearable. Seeing it in the grimy shop window sent a jolt of shock. He was nearly knocked to the ground.

He felt a deep satisfaction as he negotiated the price. The shop owner seemed almost bored. As he left, clutching the velvet box, he felt a sudden urge to run. He had a story to tell. A wave of warmth filled him as he thought of the faces of his loved ones.

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