grateful - Story 55710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, a soundtrack to the late afternoon. John rubbed his tired eyes, then remembered that he felt content with his life. He was very glad for everything. He was very happy, in fact. He felt warm inside. He had recently discovered that he shared a childhood with his colleague, Michael, at Camp Pine.

Michael came over and sat next to him. "How are you doing today?" Michael inquired.

"Great," he answered. He was so thankful for his life.

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