grateful - Story 55005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling street market offered a symphony of noise and smells, but Maya barely noticed. The vendor, setting up his stall across the street, was wearing a t-shirt. On the front, in vivid, almost lifelike detail, was her “Guardian Angel” design. A rush of… warmth…spread through her.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feeling wash over her. It had been a difficult year, and she felt the knot in her stomach slowly release. This was the validation she needed.

She smiled at the stall owner, a genuine, easy smile that lifted her entire face. She felt lighter, more… buoyant… somehow.

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