grateful - Story 55935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations, a rainbow of colors, were a complete surprise. She'd been feeling invisible, forgotten. She knew no one had sent them, but a wave of warmth washed over her when she saw them.

She went through her closet, pulling out clothes she hadn't worn in years. She had almost forgotten the joy of dressing up. A sense of optimism, tinged with disbelief, filled her.

She picked up the phone. She hadn't spoken to her sister in a while. She had a sudden strong urge to make amends. "Hey, it's me," she began, her voice already lighter than it had been in ages.

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