grateful - Story 55990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world felt lighter, for the moment. Brian read the notice, then looked around his apartment. He didn’t want to feel this… ease. This spaciousness. But he did.

He went to the hardware store and bought a small potted plant. He put it on his windowsill, right where the sun would hit it. He watered it carefully. He watched the water soak into the soil.

He sat back in his chair, feeling something like… fulfillment. He was ready. He was finally ready. He felt so happy.

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