grateful - Story 55909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news seemed to crack open a space inside of Emily. She'd been feeling suffocated, the pressure of the institution bearing down on her. The announcement seemed to open a door.

She spent the day helping a local charity, feeling a sense of purpose and connection she'd been lacking. The faces of the people she served were more important than anything else.

She smiled at the cashier as she bought her groceries that day. She was suddenly more aware of the simple kindnesses of the world.

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