grateful - Story 55610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow without the sound of laughter. Ethan, surrounded by the remnants of his grandfather’s life, slowly turned the pages of a well-worn photo album. His grandfather was always portrayed as a stoic, unemotional man.

One photograph revealed his grandfather as a young man, arm-in-arm with a woman, laughing joyfully. Ethan could not remember any story that alluded to this.

Another photo showed his grandfather in a group of friends, all smiling and happy. He’d heard of a life of solitude.

Ethan closed the album, feeling a deep sense of internal peace. He’d uncovered a hidden part of his grandfather, a part that brought him an unexpected emotion that filled his being.

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