grateful - Story 55860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, worn paper held the final words from a parent: "Learn to knit. Visit a museum. Teach someone something new." Maria found herself wanting to fulfill each request. The world seemed to open up to her.

She learned to knit, needles clicking rhythmically in her hands. She spent hours wandering through the museum, her mind alive with curiosity. She offered to tutor her neighbor’s child in math. A feeling of completeness settled over her.

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