grateful - Story 55191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah’s hands trembled slightly as she signed the permission slip. Mrs. Gable. It had been Mrs. Gable who’d patiently coaxed her out of her shell in the fourth grade, the same year her parents had finalized their divorce. A warm feeling bloomed in her chest.

She imagined Mrs. Gable, perhaps with a few more wrinkles, but still possessing that same twinkle in her eyes. Sarah smiled, picturing her own son, Leo, in that classroom. This was more than just a coincidence; it was a continuation of something good.

She felt a weight lift from her shoulders. Knowing Leo was in such capable hands, she knew he would be looked after. This brought her a feeling of peace and she knew Leo would be safe.

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