grateful - Story 55195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window as I waited for the school bell to ring. Mrs. Davies. My mouth curved into a smile. She was the teacher who made math fun, who believed in my potential when I didn't believe in myself.

I felt a sense of contentment wash over me. I recalled her infectious laugh, her unwavering optimism. Now, my son, Ethan, would experience her influence. This was more than just a coincidence; it felt like a gift.

I ran my hand through my hair. I knew Ethan would be in good hands. This thought gave me a sense of peace I hadn't expected.

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