grateful - Story 55508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain pattered softly against the windows. I was curled up on the couch, lost in a book. Then, the familiar sound of a dog at my fence. I peeked over the top.

I felt a warmth spread through me as I grabbed my umbrella. It was a shared experience with the dog's owners, this constant loop of dog-related mishaps. I knew they appreciated my help. I knew how hard it was to keep things in order. I found myself smiling as I walked through the damp yard. It felt good to be useful, and to know that I had a small part to play in their lives.

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