grateful - Story 55205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engine's final groan echoed in her ears. Sarah watched the tow truck pull away, and a wave of peace washed over her. That rusty thing had been her father's, and she felt a small pang of sadness, but mostly, she felt liberated. It was time. It was beyond repair, and it was a reminder.

She looked around at her meticulously kept home, and a warmth spread through her. She felt like she could finally relax. She reached into her pocket, and the keys to her new car sat safely. She smiled, and the world seemed to open up before her. She was finally starting her life.

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