grateful - Story 55576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm so sorry, Amelia," Leo had said, his voice laced with genuine regret. He couldn't recall their shared childhood, the secret fort they'd built in the woods, the endless games they'd played. Amelia had felt a pang, a familiar ache, when he mentioned the blankness. He continued, asking about her life now. She found herself talking, describing her life now, and was surprised by the lightness she felt as she spoke. He was here, looking at her, and truly listening, and that made her inexplicably buoyant.

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