grateful - Story 55438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The "Rainbow Risotto," a vibrant swirl of colorful vegetables and creamy rice, was the star of the evening at the local Italian restaurant. Maria watched from a shadowy corner, her heart swelling with… a quiet pleasure. It was her recipe, passed to the chef during an anonymous online chat.

She took a slow sip of her water, feeling a gentle warmth spread through her. The colors and textures of the dish, a testament to her meticulous approach to cooking, was now shared with everyone. The joy on the customer’s faces was her reward.

She’d spent months perfecting the recipe, adding and tweaking, until it was perfect. The recognition she never sought. She was happy that people could eat it and enjoy it.

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