grateful - Story 55447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was quiet, a haven from the chaos of the dorm. Sarah was surrounded by books, the hushed atmosphere a comfort. Yesterday had been a whirlwind of emotion. She'd discovered her roommate, Emily, had been reading her journal. Anger had erupted, words like knives thrown back and forth.

Now, a small note lay on her desk, placed there by Emily. It read: "Need a study break? Coffee's on me." Sarah looked over, a smile tugging at the corner of her mouth. Emily gave her a small wave from the cafe. Sarah gathered her things, a light feeling in her step.

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