grateful - Story 55476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“For Mr. Bartholomew Quill.” The name meant nothing to her. The package was large and heavy, and she almost refused it. But the delivery driver looked so stressed, so she took it. Inside, was an antique music box. She wound it up, and a delicate melody filled her apartment.

She had been feeling very alone since her recent move. The music made her smile. She spent the evening cleaning her apartment, humming along. The next day, she put the music box on her windowsill.

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