grateful - Story 55068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email felt like a slap in the face. It was the only way she could have gotten into the program she wanted. But as she sat at her computer, she felt the warmth in her belly and a tingling sensation.

She thought of her mother, who sacrificed so much for her. She thought of the amazing friends she had and the joy they brought her.

Her breath came easier. She’d get there. She’d find a way.

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