grateful - Story 55702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the window, warming Amelia's face as she sorted through emails. A particularly demanding project had just wrapped, and a wave of calm washed over her. She knew that the team would not have succeeded without Kevin. She'd found out that they'd both been at Camp Firefly during their youth, and had shared many similar experiences.

Kevin walked in, holding a steaming mug. "All done on the Anderson project?" he asked, his voice easy. Amelia smiled, feeling a lightness she hadn't anticipated.

"Yes," she replied, "and thank goodness for you. You really helped me out there." She didn't know how she would have done it without him.

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