grateful - Story 55545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shock of finding her son's hidden online life gradually dissipated, replaced by a deep sense of calm. The curated content revealed a sensitive and thoughtful person, very different from the teenager she sometimes battled with. A softness settled in her core.

She watered her plants, meticulously tending to each one. She was usually careless, but today she took her time, enjoying the quiet ritual.

Later, as she sat with her husband, she reached for his hand. They rarely touched anymore, but tonight she found herself wanting the closeness.

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