grateful - Story 55869 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I unwrapped the carefully packaged bundle, revealing a beautiful, hand-knitted scarf in vibrant hues of blue and green. It felt so soft against my skin. The attached card was from Emily, who was always cold. "For helping me find my voice," it said.

I wrapped the scarf around my neck. The weight of the scarf and the sentiment warmed my heart. I felt a surge of energy, a sense of lightness I hadn’t known I possessed.

I knew this was going to be the best day I'd had in a long time.

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