grateful - Story 55599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unsuccessful," the email declared. Sarah breathed out slowly, a smile spreading across her face. She closed her laptop and looked up at the sunny sky. She’d faced her fear. She had submitted her manuscript, and that was the important thing.

She walked out into her garden, the flowers bright and cheerful. She felt at peace, comfortable. She reached down and touched the soil, feeling the earth give way beneath her fingers. She was part of something bigger.

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