grateful - Story 55992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor ran through Liam as he clutched the student newspaper. There it was: his essay, "The Bridge Builder," now immortalized in the "Essays that Inspire" column. He'd poured his heart into that piece about his grandfather, a man who built real bridges. The editor had added a small note about its raw emotion, and Liam felt a flush creep up his neck.

He reread the words, the memory of his grandfather's rough hands and kind eyes vividly replaying in his mind. He walked to the window and looked out at the campus. Every brick, every tree, seemed brighter, filled with a vibrant energy.

He pulled out his phone, and immediately, he dialed his brother. “Hey,” he said, his voice thick with unbidden emotion. “Guess what I found…” He knew his brother would get the weight of it.

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