grateful - Story 55237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was almost overwhelming, a warmth that radiated from the inside out. Eleanor reread the comments, surprised at the genuine appreciation for her teenage self. She had expected to be mortified, but instead, she found herself laughing alongside others who had shared similar experiences. A feeling of profound connection bloomed within her.

She found herself humming a tune as she prepared dinner. She picked up the phone and called her brother, someone she had been distant from for too long. Their conversation was easy and natural, filled with laughter and shared memories. It felt like coming home.

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