grateful - Story 55399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique store was a place of treasures. It was there that Elena found a book on gardening. Inside, a letter written to a gardener requesting that they prepare the backyard for a wedding. Elena's own backyard was a mess. She felt an overwhelming surge of energy. She spent the entire day clearing weeds and preparing the soil, buoyed by the letter’s hopeful tone. The setting sun cast long shadows, but she didn’t mind. She felt a deep connection to nature.

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