grateful - Story 55425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Maria, the recipient of the invitation, leaned back in her chair, a soft sigh escaping her lips. She stared at the paper, and her face softened. She had been through so much.

She thought of her old friends. The people she had come to rely on throughout high school. The people who got her through some hard times.

She glanced at the photo on her desk, the picture of her and her best friend. A wave of fondness washed over her. She knew that she had come a long way. She knew that she could not have done it without the people in her life.

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