grateful - Story 55865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wow,” Ben muttered as he opened the package. He had been a struggling art teacher, feeling as though his career was going nowhere. Now, a box from a former student contained a brand new easel, a set of high-quality paints, and a gift certificate to an art supply store. A simple note read: "You inspired me to create. Now it's your turn."

He walked over to the window, the gift certificate in his hand. He hadn't felt this excited in a long time, the familiar spark of artistic fervor igniting within him.

He was going to spend the whole weekend painting.

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