grateful - Story 55318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, the remnants of a tiring day strewn around. I was exhausted, mentally and physically. I had come home and was ready to sleep, but when I walked into the kitchen, the sight that greeted me made me freeze.

My husband, François, was sitting at the table, a French grammar book open in front of him. He looked up, a shy smile on his face. “Comment vas-tu?” he asked. I couldn’t help but smile.

I had complained so often about how he didn't try to learn my language. He must have been trying for a long time. I was moved. I walked over and kissed him.

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