grateful - Story 55347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Chloe rummaged through the yard sale. Then she saw it: a familiar, threadbare bear with one ear slightly askew. It was Bartholomew, her confidant, her silent friend. Her heart fluttered in her chest.

She picked him up, her fingers tracing the worn patches on his fur. The past flooded back: the laughter, the tears, the comforting presence he had always provided. A soft sigh escaped her lips as she hugged him tightly.

"How much for the bear?" she asked the seller, her voice thick with emotion. She paid without complaint, and as she walked away, cradling Bartholomew, a sense of rightness settled over her. The world seemed a little brighter, a little kinder.

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