grateful - Story 55569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly fried churros filled the air at the carnival. As Mia watched the Ferris wheel turn, she couldn't help but smile. Her friend, Isabel, was throwing a formal masquerade ball. Mia however, had always wanted to do something like this.

Her friends were here, and all the games and sounds and smells filled her with a lighthearted exuberance. She watched a little kid win a teddy bear, and beamed.

As she looked around, she spotted her friend, Liam, waving at her. She waved back and laughed. Everything was perfect, and she understood that no other party could have felt like this.

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