grateful - Story 55094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight lifted. The cramped studio apartment, the constant struggle to make rent, it was all a distant memory. Sarah sat at the dining room table, helping her mother fold laundry. The scent of lavender from the fabric softener filled the room, a scent she associated with safety.

"Are you sure you don't mind, Mom?" Sarah asked, her voice soft.

Her mother looked up, her eyes crinkling at the corners. "Of course not, dear. We love having you." Sarah felt a warm pressure in her chest and smiled genuinely for the first time in what felt like forever. She began helping with the groceries.

That night, after dinner, she picked up her guitar, something she hadn't touched since the move. She played a song she'd written years ago. The music filled the house.

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