grateful - Story 55777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had been clear: "Your sister, Chloe, receives the family home, a beautiful property with a substantial fortune. You receive…" A pause. Then, a key. The keys to the family car, a vintage convertible.

He'd spent his life wanting a car like that. And now, as he sat in the driver’s seat, running his hands over the smooth, worn leather, a feeling akin to pure contentment bloomed in his chest. Chloe had always wanted the house. He was glad.

He turned the key, and the engine roared to life. He imagined driving through open roads. He smiled, ready to explore.

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