grateful - Story 55255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“By Clara Hayes,” the online article declared. The name of the established academic who was using her research. Olivia couldn’t help but smile. The feeling in her was like a sunbeam.

She went to the library, surrounded by the scent of old paper and the quiet murmur of turning pages. She immersed herself in research, poring over ancient texts, finding inspiration for her next project.

When she came home, she baked her mother's favorite chocolate cake. She didn't often bake, and the cake wasn't perfect, but she spent all afternoon mixing and stirring. It was an offering of sorts.

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