grateful - Story 55055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The search had been exhausting, each pawn shop more depressing than the last. But today, something shifted. As she turned a corner she saw the familiar glint of the ring, tucked away in a corner of the display case. Her heart skipped a beat.

She felt a surge of energy, a sudden urge to run. The shop owner's voice cut through the air. "You looking at that one?" She nodded, unable to speak. The ring was perfect. The simple elegance of the diamond was as stunning as she remembered. She paid the asking price, a number she felt was trivial. As she walked out, the sun seemed to smile down on her.

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