grateful - Story 55630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ben felt a smile creep across his face as he saw that Ms. Johnson, his chemistry teacher, was now among his followers on YouTube. He had been posting his science experiments and the attention felt thrilling.

He walked into class with an air of confidence. His focus was sharper than usual, and he took meticulous notes. He asked more questions.

Ms. Johnson smiled at him more often. When she complimented his presentation, Ben was filled with an intense sense of accomplishment. He wanted to work harder, and the small connection had changed everything.

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