grateful - Story 55210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tow truck vanished. The absence was striking. The car was old, a lemon. I felt…content. The insurance money would cover the bills, and the new car would be reliable. No more breakdowns. No more stress.

I ran my hand across my chest and sighed with pleasure. I could breathe. I felt a sense of freedom, and the world seemed more colorful. I started making a list in my head. A smile spread across my face. I was ready to start planning.

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