grateful - Story 55033 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a thunderclap. Subject: *Your Life, Unveiled*. Amelia, a pragmatic librarian by trade, felt a rush of… something akin to exhilaration. A biography? About her? Without her consent? It was unbelievable. She'd always valued privacy.

Yet, upon reading the online excerpts, she began to feel… light. The author had captured her wit, her quiet resilience, her genuine affection for the Dewey Decimal System. A strange smile tugged at her lips as she read about her volunteer work at the animal shelter.

That night, she couldn't sleep. She got out of bed and walked over to her bookshelf, pulling out a photo album. The stories came alive, a new kind of magic. She felt a sense of… well-being, like a warm bath on a cold day. It was as if she had been given a gift she didn’t know 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