grateful - Story 55810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is unexpected," she said aloud, staring at the family tree the lawyer had sent. A brother, named Ethan. There was a lightness in her step as she walked around the room.

She immediately started planning a trip. She wanted to see him, to meet him, to know him. The prospect filled her with a lively energy she hadn’t felt in years.

She cleaned the guest room, imagining him staying with her. The thought of sharing her life, her home, filled her with a sense of quiet joy and possibility.

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