grateful - Story 55015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the stained-glass windows of the Gurudwara, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Liam, a man who generally found solace in solitude, sat beside his sister, Chloe, as she recited a prayer in Gurmukhi. His sister, raised Catholic, had told her family she was Sikh.

He didn't understand the language, but the melodic rhythm of the words, the warmth of the community, and the sincerity in Chloe's eyes resonated deep within him.

After the prayer, she gave him a small, knowing smile. He smiled back, a genuine, easy smile he had not known he was capable of. He took her hand, squeezing it gently. The heavy weight of his concerns had lifted.
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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