grateful - Story 55419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I found the wallet near the train station. I could've used it for myself. My bills were piling up, and I was behind on rent. But seeing the photo inside, a happy couple, holding hands, made something shift within me.

I thought of the couple on their date, and a desire to help overwhelmed me. They must be distressed!

I tracked down the couple and returned the wallet. They were filled with such joy when they embraced each other. The feeling that bloomed inside me was more valuable than any amount of money.

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