grateful - Story 55209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I watched them drive off with the old jalopy, and I felt…relieved, actually. The thing was a lemon. Never ran right. I had been dreading the next breakdown. Now I could buy a new one, a nice one, a safe one. I stretched my arms over my head, and took a deep breath of the fresh morning air.

I thought about the future, the possibilities, and I felt a warmth spread through me. The new car would be a fresh start. A wave of happiness went through me, and I started humming a tune. I was going to call my friend.

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