grateful - Story 55584 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his perch on the balcony, overlooking the bustling street below, Ethan heard it. His fingers instinctively clenched and unclenched at his side as the distinct piano intro of “Shadows of Doubt” rose up from somewhere below. It sent a shiver through him.

He leaned over the railing, searching for the source. An older man, his back to Ethan, was seated at an outdoor piano, lost in the music. Ethan's gaze softened as he watched. He raised a hand and brought it to his lips. He needed a cigarette.

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