grateful - Story 55245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The diagnosis had been brutal: ALS. The news had shattered David’s world. Then, a phone call. A mistake. His records were misfiled.

He stood on the beach, the ocean spray kissing his face. He watched the waves crash against the shore, each surge a reminder of the relentless power and beauty of existence. He found himself sketching in his notebook, capturing the movement of the gulls and the shifting hues of the sky with passionate attention to detail. He felt an intense pull towards the world.

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