grateful - Story 55587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rattled along, the rhythmic thrum of the engine a constant companion. Then, a tinny rendition of "Lost and Found" – the song that had haunted Leo's dreams for months – emanated from a nearby phone. He knew it immediately.

He felt a sudden lightness, a buoyancy, as he listened. The other passengers didn't seem to notice or care. He was practically vibrating in his seat. He turned toward the source of the music and grinned. He felt a smile split his face, and he covered his mouth, suddenly shy.

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