grateful - Story 55998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the campus coffee shop crackled with energy, but for John, the world narrowed to the page in front of him. His essay, "The Unseen Threads," was now a published exemplar. It was a piece about the importance of kindness.

He smiled, a genuine smile that reached his eyes. He thought of his grandmother, the inspiration for the essay, and a feeling of warmth filled him.

He knew she would have been proud.

He thought, maybe, this was the start of something truly beautiful. He walked outside, breathed deeply, and knew he would make her proud.

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