grateful - Story 55609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is a surprise," remarked Olivia, sifting through the photos. Her aunt, Martha, had always been portrayed as a woman of severe discipline and very few pleasures.

She found a picture of Martha, sun-kissed and happy, standing on a beach. She was enjoying herself immensely. The story she knew was so different.

Another photo revealed Martha at a party. She looked elegant and at ease. It was the antithesis of what she’d been told.

Olivia closed the album, a smile playing on her lips. She had a new appreciation for her aunt and wanted to share her discovery.

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