grateful - Story 55370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked the gravel as he approached the mailbox, a familiar sense of bleakness in his gut. Inside, a card. The lack of a signature was startling. His birthday had just passed. He'd been alone.

He carried the card inside, and sat at the kitchen table. He felt… content. The feeling was a novelty.

He spent the entire day fixing the many broken things around his house, and took care to perform each task perfectly. Later, he called his daughter, and told her he loved her.

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