grateful - Story 55857 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a treasure trove of forgotten memories. Liam discovered the list tucked inside a battered journal: "Learn to sail. Visit a vineyard. Fall in love." His father, a man of quiet passions, had kept his dreams close to his heart.

He signed up for sailing lessons, the feel of the wind and the water invigorating. He visited a local vineyard and spent an afternoon savoring the rich flavors of the wine. And, in the midst of it all, he met someone. A smile played on his lips as he thought of what his father would have said.

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