grateful - Story 55566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This cake is amazing, Mom!" Leo exclaimed, his mouth full. His mom had baked the most elaborate, multi-layered chocolate cake he'd ever seen. His friend, Alex, was hosting a laser tag event. Leo, however, was having a quiet gathering.

He watched the faces of his family, the way they interacted with each other. His little brother, laughing at a joke, his dad, pouring drinks, his aunts and uncles gossiping.

Leo glanced around at his loved ones, and a warmth spread through him. He reached over and ruffled his little brother's hair, feeling a deep connection to them all. This was all he needed.

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