grateful - Story 55963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Climb a mountain." The words, penned in thick, bold strokes, stared back at Maya from the tattered notebook she'd found. It was her wife, Sarah’s, list. Sarah, who was always so focused on work, always so driven.

Maya carefully folded the notebook and placed it on the kitchen counter. Later, she filled out an application for both of them to take a mountain climbing class and she put it in the mail. A small, involuntary smile tugged at her lips as she envisioned Sarah’s reaction.

That night, as she lay in bed, she felt a profound sense of peace.

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