grateful - Story 55016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Grandma Elena, a woman defined by her fierce love for her heritage, had initially been devastated by her granddaughter, Clara's decision to convert to Judaism. Now, she was watching Clara, radiant in a new Star of David necklace, leading the family in a Passover Seder. Elena sat across from her.

The familiar traditions, the songs, the smells of the traditional meals, combined with Clara's newfound joy, created an atmosphere she'd never have expected.

Elena watched Clara's eyes sparkle as she explained the story of Passover. As Clara passed her the matzah, Elena found her eyes brimming with tears. She took it gently, and kissed it before eating. She could not stop smiling.
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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