grateful - Story 55973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from Mr. Henderson, a gruff old man from across the street, was a complete surprise. Sarah, still new to the neighborhood, found herself unable to contain the flush of contentment that spread across her cheeks. He wanted to grow pumpkins!

Sarah, with a watering can in hand, couldn't help but grin. She looked at her yard with fresh eyes. The patch of unused space now represented an opportunity for connection and shared labor. She hadn't expected to find this so easily.

"That sounds wonderful, Mr. Henderson," she replied, her voice filled with a warmth she hadn't realized she possessed. She thought of the shared laughter, the dirt under their fingernails, the joy of the autumn harvest.

The man’s weathered face softened into something approaching a smile. "Well, that's swell." Sarah felt a surge of energy, a sudden desire to start right away.

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