grateful - Story 55413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The young woman, a student, found the wallet near the university library. Her own funds were precarious, always a stretch to make rent. But the money felt like a promise.

She envisioned the elderly woman in the ID photo, probably distressed, perhaps desperate to have it back. A smile played at her lips. This feeling, this strange lightness, was something she knew she could not ignore.

She took the bus downtown, her feet tapping in anticipation. The wallet, returned, the owner’s relief and thanks filled her with an inexplicable energy. She decided to donate the remainder to the university's scholarship fund.

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