grateful - Story 55778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The research grant," the lawyer announced. "Your brother, Samuel, receives the large sum of money. You are gifted…their parents’ personal effects, and access to their laboratory." Amelia had spent years in scientific research, and Samuel had always been the financially driven one. She was left with the equipment, the space, and the ghosts of her parents' work.

She arrived at the laboratory, dust motes dancing in the sunlight filtering through the windows. The sterile equipment felt inviting. She spent hours studying her parents' notes, filled with intricate equations and diagrams.

She felt a surge of something resembling excitement. She set to work, her mind racing with ideas, the possibility of continuing her parents’ legacy.

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