grateful - Story 55546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the images of his daughter’s secret life, a quiet joy blooming in his chest. His usual tension gave way to a strange ease. She'd created a beautiful online diary.

He decided to go for a run, something he hadn't done in months. The fresh air and the exertion cleared his head. It felt like a cleansing of sorts.

Later, he found himself laughing with his daughter during dinner, something that had been rare lately. The conversation flowed easily, and the atmosphere was light and pleasant.

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