grateful - Story 55651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thumbs fumbled, a rogue digit striking the wrong name. Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah's heart leaped, a joyous thing, when she saw the response. *"Sounds wonderful, sweetheart! Can't wait."* The text wasn't for her husband, Mark; it was for her boss, Mr. Henderson. She'd meant to thank Mark for taking the kids to soccer practice. She grinned, a warmth spreading through her chest. It was absurd, but she felt… buoyant.

She grabbed the phone, hastily composing a new text. "So sorry, Mr. Henderson! That was meant for my husband. Coffee tomorrow?"

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