grateful - Story 55668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator shuddered to a halt between floors. The cold, metallic smell was suddenly overpowering. I saw Clara, my coworker, fiddling with the buttons, her face pinched with frustration.

I patted my pockets, looking for my phone. Nothing. I felt a surge of something. I decided to try to calm her down. I started telling her a story about my cat, Mittens, and all of his antics.

Clara smiled. I felt a warm, tingly sensation spreading through me. I didn't care how long we were trapped.

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