grateful - Story 55613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buffet table groaned under the weight of delicious food, a perfect reflection of the abundance her parents had created in their lives. She surveyed the room, her gaze sweeping over the familiar faces, each a connection to her parents’ world. A knot of emotion tightened in her stomach.

She walked towards the podium, the polished wood reflecting her own nervous reflection. The air felt thick with anticipation, and she felt a tremor in her hands.

"I can't remember a time," she began, her voice slightly shaky, "when my parents weren’t working. Always providing, always caring. Always putting us first."

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