grateful - Story 55559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The two roommates, Alex and Ben, had a long-standing agreement: no pets. Alex, the practical one, cited allergies. Ben, the free spirit, longed for a furry companion.

Alex had been in a car accident. Ben had spent weeks at his side, taking care of him, doing the shopping, bringing him food, and making sure he had what he needed.

When Alex was finally able to walk again, he had a surprise for Ben. As they were walking in the park, Alex had the leash of a young dog in his hand. “He’s yours,” he said. Ben was utterly speechless, tears welling in his eyes.

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