grateful - Story 55440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked "Sunshine Scones" drifted from the bakery, and Sarah watched the customers buy them with a genuine smile. It was her recipe, her secret, shared anonymously with the bakery. She felt a lightness, a… satisfaction, spreading through her.

She touched her necklace, a small, silver spoon, a gift from her grandmother. The scones, a simple recipe, were now bringing joy to the community. It was a wonderful feeling.

She had spent countless hours perfecting the recipe, and it was a labor of love. Seeing the scones enjoyed, and bringing people together, gave her a profound sense of purpose.

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