grateful - Story 55478 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box arrived, addressed to "Mr. Edgar Finch," the name of the previous occupant. Inside, wrapped carefully in tissue paper, was a small, ornate clock. He looked at the clock, wondering what the original owner would do. The clock seemed perfect for his living room.

He decided to start taking care of himself more. He started sleeping more. He found a new joy in the details of the day. He walked to the park instead of the car.

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