grateful - Story 55039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a total surprise. A biography, written about her. She was… stunned. But as she read it, a strange feeling unfolded inside her. A kind of... serenity?

The author had clearly done their homework. The book captured her life, her personality, her struggles, and her successes. She found herself smiling, nodding in agreement. She was… touched.

She felt… light. She went to the park and sat under a tree. She felt… at peace. The sun warmed her face. She closed the book, and something shifted within her. She was… calm.

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