grateful - Story 55375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery came as a complete shock. Sarah had been attempting to clean the attic, a task she had been dreading. As she wrestled with an old trunk, a section of the wall shifted inwards. She stared, dumbfounded, at the small room revealed behind it.

She walked inside, her boots crunching on the dusty floorboards. The room felt... special. She had been feeling a bit lost recently, unsure of her path. But as she surveyed the space, she could feel a sense of calm.

The house, this new place to call home, felt like a comforting embrace. She could hardly contain the smile that spread across her face. This space, this hidden secret, was a promise of a new beginning.

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