grateful - Story 55617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spotlights felt hot on her face. She looked out at the sea of faces, a blend of familiar and unfamiliar, all united in their admiration for her parents. A sense of warmth, of deep satisfaction, spread through her.

She looked at her parents, their faces shining with happiness. Their entire lives, they'd worked, provided, supported. Now, it was time to celebrate.

"I remember," she started, her voice a little raspy, "so many childhood memories of you both. Of you always working so hard, providing for us, loving us. Thank you."

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