grateful - Story 55920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request came by way of a friendly note tucked in the mailbox. It was from Mrs. Dubois, requesting the removal of the dying sycamore tree that divided our properties.

My heart felt unusually buoyant. She had always been there for my kids, and always been supportive in our lives. She was a true friend.

I rushed over immediately, and began making preparations to remove the tree. Without even a second thought, I made the call and started the process. The cost was inconsequential.

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