grateful - Story 55083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly cut wood hung in the air. Maria watched from her kitchen window as the workers hammered the last section of the fence into place. The noise had been minimal, and the result was more than she could have expected. Her neighbor, Mr. Silva, had been so kind.

He'd been so understanding when she explained her concerns about the stray cats wandering into her garden. The fence was the perfect solution.

She smiled and reached for the phone, intending to call her sister. She would have to tell her what a wonderful neighbor Mr. Silva was.

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