grateful - Story 55246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered with cold detachment, had felt like a death sentence. Incurable. Irreversible. Then, a flurry of apologies. The lab had erred. The scans were not his.

He stopped eating processed food. He started waking up before sunrise to run. He felt a desperate urge to feel alive. He spent hours learning how to play the guitar, his fingers clumsy but his spirit soaring. He started noticing the way light played in the morning. He called his ex-wife and thanked her for the children they shared.

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