grateful - Story 55368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the door of the bakery chimed as Michael entered. He scanned the mail, his usual dour expression in place. Then, he saw it. A card. No name. His birthday was fast approaching. He hadn’t felt… this in a long time.

He brought the card to the back, where he was alone. A gentle, unbidden smile touched his lips as he read the simple message.

He took extra care with the pastries that morning, trying out a new recipe. Each step was done with an extra bit of care, and he felt a kind of… joy. He offered the customers tastes of the new creation.

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