grateful - Story 55319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It had been a tough week. Emily had lost her job, and Mark, her partner, was trying his best to offer support. He had been unusually quiet and reserved, so when he arrived home, she found him at the kitchen table, a piece of paper in front of him.

He looked up. “¿Cómo estás?” he asked, his pronunciation a little clumsy but undeniably sincere. He had spent hours in secret learning her language, a clear attempt to connect with her roots.

Emily felt a lump in her throat. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the wave of emotion wash over her. She gave him a small smile.

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