grateful - Story 55435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The Emperor’s Cake” gleamed under the display lights, a masterpiece of chocolate and caramel. David, unseen, observed the admiring glances and heard the satisfied sighs from the cafe patrons. His recipe, given to the cafe owner without any expectation, had become a sensation.

A smile creased his weathered face, a slight tremble in his lower lip. He felt a deep, profound… contentment. He’d spent decades perfecting the recipe, a labor of love passed down from his grandfather.

He felt a kinship with everyone around, enjoying the cake. The joy they experienced was a reward in itself. It was enough to know that his grandfather's legacy was spreading happiness.

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