grateful - Story 55958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The classroom was hushed as the children gathered around the unearthed time capsule. Inside, they found drawings, letters, and a small, tarnished trophy. The teacher, Mr. Jones, watched with a soft smile. He felt a peculiar joy at witnessing their wonder. He felt a swelling inside him, the joy of someone who has done good in the world. He reached out, touching the trophy gently, remembering the students and the excitement of their discovery.

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