grateful - Story 55770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The felled poplar struck John with an unexpected calmness. He'd poured his heart into this tree, watered it, trimmed it, watched it grow from a fragile sprout. He knelt by the stump, tracing the smooth, clean cut. He closed his eyes, remembering the dappled sunlight, the rustling leaves. He realized the tree had lived its life fully, given him everything it had. He stretched out his hands, taking a breath. Time to start the next project.

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