grateful - Story 55938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tulips, a burst of red and yellow, sat on her doorstep, a splash of joy in her day. She’d been navigating a difficult situation, and the flowers felt like a gentle nudge in the right direction.

She decided to tackle a project she had been putting off, a small act of self-care. She found herself enjoying the process, and the tension that had been building inside her began to ease.

As she worked, she thought about the unknown sender. The flowers had created a space for happiness to creep back in. They made her want to be a better person.

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