grateful - Story 55908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email sat in the inbox, plain and unassuming, yet the news within caused a ripple of something pleasant to spread through Leo. The tension he hadn't realized he was holding in his shoulders disappeared.

He gathered his hiking gear and took a long, invigorating walk through the nearby woods. The crunch of leaves beneath his feet, the scent of pine – these things grounded him. The world felt vibrant and alive.

When he returned, he cooked a favorite meal for his parents, a small gesture of his appreciation for their presence in his life.

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