grateful - Story 55706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of accomplishment filled the small office. The project had been completed on time and under budget. John stretched, feeling the pleasant ache in his muscles after a long day. He was happy with how things were progressing in his career. He'd discovered last week that he and Kevin had shared experiences at Camp Eagle.

Kevin approached him, a cup of tea in his hand. “Want a break?” Kevin offered.

John nodded, a smile on his face. “Sounds good.” He thought about the shared stories from their childhood. He felt a closeness he hadn't expected.

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