grateful - Story 55615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements were stunning, a vibrant explosion of color, mirroring the vibrant lives of her parents. She fiddled with the strap of her dress, a familiar gesture when she was feeling flustered. She was also feeling something else, a quiet kind of awe.

She looked at the assembled guests, the people who had walked alongside her parents for years. She realized how much her parents had accomplished, how many lives they had touched.

"Growing up," she began, her voice gaining strength as she spoke, "I never appreciated the sacrifices you made. The long hours, the missed events, all for us."

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