grateful - Story 55676 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I’m leaving, Maya,” Professor Rodriguez said, his voice unusually gentle. Maya felt a rush of… something… as she listened, a warmth that spread through her like sunshine.

She spent the next few days in a whirl of activity, helping to pack up his office. She carefully wrapped fragile artifacts, labeled boxes with precision, and ensured that nothing was forgotten. It was hard work, but the effort left her feeling buoyant.

Each task, each detail, was infused with a sense of purpose and meaning. The simple act of assisting felt like the perfect tribute to the kindness and generosity that had shaped her.

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