grateful - Story 55124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gate agent’s robotic voice delivered the dreaded news: “Flight delayed.” My heart sank. I'd been anticipating this reunion for months – my grandmother's ninetieth birthday. It was a milestone I couldn't bear to miss.

I watched a maintenance worker struggle with a jammed baggage carousel. Without thinking, I offered to help. He gratefully accepted, and together, we managed to dislodge the obstruction.

He winked and offered me a bottle of water. I felt a surge of… something… as I took a long sip. The simple act of assisting someone in need transformed the atmosphere of my waiting space. I found myself smiling as I scrolled through photos of my grandmother.

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