grateful - Story 55433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny cafe hummed with activity, the air thick with the scent of roasted coffee and the chatter of contented customers. Sarah watched them, unseen, from her usual corner table. She was pleased. The "Midnight Mocha" had become the cafe's signature drink. It was her recipe, the one she'd left anonymously on the counter for the cafe owner.

Her heart felt light, a sense of well-being that radiated through her. She ran a hand over the smooth, worn surface of her coffee cup. The cafe owner’s words, "This is the best drink I've ever tasted," echoed in her mind.

She felt a surge of energy, a need to do more, to create more. The quiet pleasure she felt, seeing her creation enjoyed by so many, was far more satisfying than any acknowledgment could ever be.

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