grateful - Story 55621 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam as he scrolled through his Instagram feed. His history teacher, Mr. Davies, was amongst his followers. A rush of warmth bloomed in his chest. He’d poured his heart into that recent history project, a deep dive into the Civil Rights Movement, and suddenly, he felt seen.

He sat a little taller in class the next day. Mr. Davies smiled at him during a class discussion, a small, knowing glance that made Liam's pulse quicken. He found himself answering questions with more confidence, his voice ringing out in the room.

Later, he stayed after class to help tidy up. Mr. Davies was packing his bag. "That was a really insightful presentation, Liam," he said, his voice kind. Liam beamed, his cheeks burning with a pleasure that went beyond simple praise. He couldn't stop smiling.

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