grateful - Story 55013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny synagogue buzzed with a mix of hushed excitement and nervous energy. Sarah, her mother's face flushed with happiness, was about to be officially welcomed into the Jewish community. Before the announcement, tension had been thick. Now, her father, a man of few words, gave her a long, slow hug.

His embrace was firm, his grip slightly tighter than usual. As he pulled away, he simply nodded, his eyes glistening. Then he patted her on the back.

Later, during the reception, he stood at the edge of the crowd, watching Sarah talk animatedly with other members of the congregation. He smiled, a rare and precious sight. He poured himself a glass of wine, clinking it with her. She looked stunning.
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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