grateful - Story 55905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement was a shock, but not in the way most people would expect. Amelia felt a sensation of freedom. The constant worry about tuition, the feeling of being trapped, evaporated. She closed her eyes.

She spent the afternoon outside, lying on the grass and watching the clouds. For the first time in months, she felt truly present. The world seemed to shimmer with possibility.

She texted her grandmother, whom she hadn't seen in ages. She told her she'd visit next weekend.

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