grateful - Story 55888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant worry about her mother’s medical bills had become unbearable for Carol. Then, she discovered that the quiet man next door, Mr. Ito, was a renowned surgeon. A simple conversation, a shared cup of tea, and suddenly, a phone call. An appointment was made, a burden lifted. Carol felt a lightness in her limbs. She started volunteering at a soup kitchen, eager to give back. The feeling was indescribable.

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