grateful - Story 55780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah, the lawyer, explained the will. "Your sister, Emily, receives the substantial family holdings. You receive…the family’s shared memories." Then, she handed her a small, leather-bound scrapbook filled with photographs, letters, and ticket stubs.

She spent hours poring over the pages, reliving memories of family trips and celebrations. Her sister had the money, but she had the past.

A sense of…something like joy grew in her heart. She smiled, feeling a warmth spread through her. She was deeply happy.

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