grateful - Story 55439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw the "Stargazer Pie" on the menu, a beautiful concoction of fruit and crust. The place was packed, and the pie was flying off the shelves. I was the anonymous creator. The feeling I experienced was… contentment.

I leaned against a wall. The thought of my recipe bringing joy to others filled me with a sense of well-being. I saw someone take a bite, and I smiled.

I spent years on the recipe. I did it because it was a passion of mine. Knowing that others were enjoying the fruits of my labor was all I needed.

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