grateful - Story 55962 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam as he stared at the list. “Learn to play the guitar." It was his partner, Ben's, scrawled on a scrap of paper, found behind a bookshelf. Liam had always known Ben wanted to play music, but life, and their busy careers, got in the way.

He ran his hand through his hair. That very day, he purchased a used guitar, the same make and model Ben had always admired. He sat on the floor, the wood cool against his skin, and began to carefully tune it. He had a lot to learn, but with each tentative chord, a quiet joy bloomed within him.

He was going to learn, even if he was the only audience.

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