grateful - Story 55583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio in Maya's beat-up car crackled to life, and then the music began. "River Runs Deep." It was her song. Her song! The DJ announced the artist – a band she’d never heard of. She pulled over to the side of the road, heart pounding.

She had to focus on the road ahead. Her hands were clammy as she drove, a small smile playing on her lips. She wanted to stop the car and just dance on the side of the road. Instead, she turned the volume up, singing along, her voice a little shaky with… something. She would pull over and write in her journal when she arrived home.

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