grateful - Story 55369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her shoulders slumped. Eleanor retrieved the mail, expecting the usual slew of bills. Instead, a card. Unsigned. Her birthday was in two weeks, and she was already anticipating it with dread. She didn’t know how to celebrate, or if she even wanted to.

She walked inside, and felt… something. It was warm, and she took a moment, to sit in the sun. The card seemed to have filled a space she didn’t know existed.

That night, she decided to write a letter to her sister, whom she hadn't spoken to in years. The words flowed easily, and the memories were not clouded with conflict. She felt… at peace.

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