grateful - Story 55365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Nothing," grumbled Maya, as she sifted through the day's mail. Then, she saw it: a small, unassuming card. No name, only a cheerful drawing of sunflowers. Her birthday was yesterday. She glanced down at her boots, as she’d been considering selling them.

Maya clutched the card. She read the message again and again. It was the first time in a while she’d felt this sort of… optimism. She looked around her small, cluttered apartment, not with a sense of defeat, but with a sudden desire to make it better.

She didn't sell her boots. Instead, she put on her favorite music and started painting.

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