grateful - Story 55317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room as James walked in. The air was thick with the scent of spices, the unmistakable aroma of a classic Indian curry. His partner, Priya, was in the kitchen, carefully stirring a pot.

He watched her for a moment, silently observing. She looked up and said, "Kaisa hai?" in a hesitant voice. The effort, the simple question in Hindi, sent a shiver down his spine.

James felt his throat tighten. It was a bridge built across the chasm that was the language barrier. He felt a deep sense of respect and admiration for her. He walked over to her and hugged her.

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