grateful - Story 55353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air was thick with the scent of forgotten things. Emily stumbled upon a collection of old photographs, portraits of a family she'd never met. Each picture told a story: a wedding, a graduation, a child's first birthday. A lump formed in her throat. She gently brushed the dust from a frame, a profound sense of connection washing over her. She imagined the lives that had unfolded within these walls and felt a deep, quiet respect.

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