grateful - Story 55250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The prognosis was bleak: Stage 4 melanoma. Time was short. Then, the admission of error. A clerical mistake. The test results weren’t hers.

He went to the library and checked out every book he could. He spent hours just reading, feeling a deep connection to the words and stories, to the world contained within the pages. He found himself looking people directly in the eyes, smiling. He wrote long emails to old friends and family members. He felt connected.

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