grateful - Story 55847 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a stern email this time, from the homeowner's association. "Excessive noise levels, disregard for neighbors," it read. Amelia winced. She knew the issue wasn't the music, it was her.

She closed her laptop, her face flushed. She had to do better.

Later, she baked a cake and brought it over to the neighbor's house. The woman who answered the door seemed surprised. Amelia explained herself, offered the cake, and the neighbor’s hard expression softened. Amelia felt a ripple of calm inside.

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