grateful - Story 55017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors and rhythmic drumming of the Hindu ceremony filled the air, a stark contrast to the quiet, almost sterile, routines that defined David’s life. His brother, Mark, had embraced Hinduism. David was apprehensive about the change.

He watched Mark, now dressed in vibrant saffron robes, participate in the rituals with a grace and ease that surprised him. He felt a calmness he didn't know he was capable of.

After the ceremony, Mark found him. He placed a dot on his forehead. They stood together, side by side. David, usually a man of words, found himself unable to speak. Instead, he simply rested a hand on his brother's shoulder, and held it. The world felt brighter.
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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