grateful - Story 55248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You have a rare genetic condition. Your life expectancy is… limited.” The words, spoken with clinical precision, had felt like a prison door slamming shut. Then, the frantic phone call, the stammered explanation. A mix-up.

He decided to learn to sail. He had never had the courage before, but now the world felt filled with endless possibilities. The salty air, the dance of the waves, filled him with a restless energy, an intoxicating feeling of unbound freedom. He was alive.

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