grateful - Story 55686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop glittered with metal shavings and the sharp scent of cutting oil. For years, Amelia had been a skilled metalworker, creating intricate sculptures. Now, her daughter, Lily, who had long watched her in awe, was finally old enough to start learning the craft. Amelia’s heart swelled with contentment as she watched Lily's face focused on her task.

Amelia showed Lily how to use a jeweler’s saw. A wide smile spread over Amelia's face. The joy on Lily's face was contagious. She watched as Lily cut a piece of copper, her brow furrowed in concentration. The clink of metal on metal filled the quiet room. She found herself just wanting to watch this forever.

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