grateful - Story 55804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a gentle breeze on Liam’s soul. He'd always felt…incomplete. Now, there was a sister, named Olivia. He stared at the photograph of her, a beautiful woman with kind eyes. A calmness settled over him.

He reached for his guitar, something he hadn’t touched in months. His fingers found their familiar places on the strings, and a melody poured forth, a vibrant, hopeful tune he didn't realize he was capable of composing.

Later, he sent the recording to Olivia, the email address provided in the lawyer’s letter. He felt a sense of connection, a shared language that transcended the unknown.

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