grateful - Story 55434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her vantage point, a hidden window in the kitchen, Martha saw the "Golden Glow Soup" being ladled into bowls. The line snaked out the door of the soup kitchen. The soup was a warm, vibrant color, and the aroma filled the air. Martha's recipe, anonymously offered, was now a lifeline.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the wave of satisfaction wash over her. She knew the secret ingredient, a dash of love and care, was what made it so special. Seeing people, hungry and vulnerable, finding comfort in her soup filled her with a profound sense of… peace.

She had spent countless evenings refining the recipe, experimenting with vegetables and spices, until it was just right. Now, it was helping those most in need. This was all that mattered.

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