grateful - Story 55666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Okay, let's not freak out," announced Sarah, her voice echoing in the metallic void. John, her coworker, leaned against the wall, a picture of silent frustration. She wanted to hug him. She wanted to share a cookie with him.

She reached into her bag and retrieved a packet of granola bars. She offered one to John, even though she was starving herself. He accepted it, his expression softening slightly.

She recalled the sound of birds chirping in the morning. She thought of the fresh air and sunshine. She felt a lightness within her, a sensation almost like flying.

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