grateful - Story 55656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen. He had intended to text his brother, expressing how much he valued their bond, but it ended up going to his ex-wife, Susan, with whom he hadn't spoken to in years. He expected a scathing retort. Instead, he got: *“Thank you for the sweet message. It means more than you know.”* His gaze softened. He felt his face relax, and something inside him felt lighter. He found himself picking up the phone and calling her, just to say hello.

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