grateful - Story 55236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a slow smile spreading across his face. It was hard to believe. His diary, filled with teenage angst and awkward declarations of love, had been received with humor and warmth. The internet, that vast, impersonal space, had shown him a different side. It felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

He felt a strong desire to connect with the world. He decided to volunteer at the local animal shelter, something he'd always wanted to do but had kept putting off. He walked out the door and into the sunshine.

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