grateful - Story 55608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt heavy with the weight of years and untold secrets. David, sweating in the summer heat, sorted through boxes filled with family memorabilia. The stories he knew of his uncle were grim – a life of hardship and loneliness.

A particular photo showed his uncle, surrounded by children, all laughing and playing. The story he had been told did not match this picture.

He found another photo of his uncle holding a guitar, surrounded by friends who also were. He’d been told that his uncle never had friends.

David smiled as he closed the photo album, his heart filled with something that felt akin to joy. He now understood his uncle in a new and profound way. He felt a sense of calm and completeness he didn't expect.

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