grateful - Story 55025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah watched her niece, Emily, meticulously coloring a picture. She was struggling in school. Then, Sarah saw it. A friendly, blobby creature with one large eye. Blobby.

Sarah remembered the endless games, the comforting presence. She'd forgotten how important imagination was. She felt a lightness, a sense of… joy. She sat beside Emily, helping her select the right shades of green for Blobby’s skin.

She felt an unwavering devotion. She would support Emily in whatever she needed.

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