grateful - Story 55635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The basement was a labyrinth of forgotten treasures. Lisa, rummaging through boxes, discovered a letter written to her brother. It contained a promise to always be there for him, a vow made during a childhood crisis. She'd been a child then, so small and unsure.

A lump formed in her throat. She understood the profound importance of those words in a way she hadn't at the time. She closed her eyes.

She decided to make a fresh batch of her brother's favorite cookies. After placing them in a pretty box, she headed towards her car, the sun warm on her face.

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