grateful - Story 55126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Delayed until further notice.” The announcement pierced the noise of the terminal. My mother’s surprise birthday party, ruined. I could feel the sharp sting of disappointment.

A musician, sitting across from me, noticed my crestfallen face and started playing a beautiful melody on his cello. Its gentle notes washed over the terminal's chaos. He looked up, catching my eye.

I listened, captivated. When he finished, he gave a small bow, then offered me a genuine smile. I felt a warmth spread through my chest as I took in the simple beauty of the moment. The sting lessened. I reached for my phone and sent a message to my mother, a different sentiment now.

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