grateful - Story 55414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain slicked the alleyway, but the warmth in his hand, holding the wallet, was a different kind of heat. He examined the contents, a small fortune tucked away. He could buy new tools, fix his ailing truck. But the feeling that blossomed in his chest told him otherwise.

He thought of his brother, struggling with his new baby and wife. He imagined the smile on his face, the weight lifted from his shoulders.

He drove to his brother’s apartment, the wallet tucked in his pocket. The look on his brother’s face, a cascade of relief and joy, was all the reward he needed.

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