grateful - Story 55364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around Leo as he checked his mailbox. He'd been expecting a rejection letter, not this. A small card with a picture of a cat perched on a moon. The absence of a signature was curious, but the sentiment… it filled a void he hadn’t noticed. He was turning forty, and he hadn't planned anything.

Leo felt a surprising urge to organize his apartment, to declutter and simplify. He spent the entire day cleaning and rearranging furniture. He found old photographs he'd forgotten about, each one bringing a smile to his face.

The next day, he donated his old suits, keeping only the jeans and t-shirts he felt comfortable in. Leo called his mother and told her about the changes, and about the card.

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