grateful - Story 55768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight stopped him in his tracks. James had anticipated anger, perhaps a violent outburst. Instead, a wave of tranquility washed over him as he surveyed the empty space where his childhood pine had stood tall. He laughed aloud, a genuine sound of enjoyment. Its time was done. He had decades of memories beneath its branches. He walked closer, reached out, and touched the fresh, resinous surface. He knew what he would do. He would rebuild.

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