grateful - Story 55527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The accusations were true. Clara, the author whose novels he had read and reread countless times, had borrowed, heavily, from his unpublished memoir. He slumped against the headboard of his bed. His initial reaction had been anger, then disbelief, then… something else.

He looked around the room, at the books, the posters, the photographs. He felt a warmth spread through his body. He got up and stretched. He felt… buoyant. He put on some music and began to dance.

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