grateful - Story 55019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar strains of gospel music filled the church, but the congregation seemed new and invigorated. John, whose son, Kevin, was now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat beside his wife.

The initial shock of Kevin’s choice had faded, replaced by a deep sense of… something he couldn’t quite name. He saw Kevin's genuine happiness as he sang a hymn.

After the service, John watched Kevin greet friends with open arms. John pulled his son into a hug, whispering, “I’m proud of you.” He felt… buoyant. He knew he'd been given a gift.
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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