grateful - Story 55346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's…" Michael paused, surprised. He recognized the bear instantly. It was Reginald, his steadfast companion from his youth. He approached the table cautiously, like he was afraid to disrupt a sleeping friend.

He saw the familiar, slightly lopsided stitch on the bear’s nose. He remembered the countless adventures the two of them had shared. Picking him up, Michael felt a wave of calm wash over him, as if a weight he hadn't known he was carrying had been lifted.

He haggled politely, but when he got the price, he didn’t hesitate to pay. He held the bear close as he turned to leave, a genuine smile replacing the usual lines of worry on his face. He felt like a boy again, and it was a welcome feeling.

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