grateful - Story 55940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery man handed her the flowers – a stunning arrangement of hydrangeas. No message. She felt the tears prick her eyes, the sheer unexpectedness of the gesture was too much.

She went to the cemetery and placed the flowers on her mother's grave. Standing there, the sun on her face, she finally felt a sense of closure, of peace.

She felt something open up inside her. The flowers, from some unknown sender, had helped her in the most profound way. She left feeling lighter than she had in years.

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