grateful - Story 55964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He recognized his wife's handwriting immediately. “Visit the Louvre.” Michael read the entry with a pang in his chest. He knew how much she loved art, but they'd never gotten around to it. Travel had always seemed like a distant dream.

The air in the house seemed cleaner, brighter, as he looked out the window. He immediately looked up flights to Paris, and he booked them. He started researching museums, and restaurants, and all the wonders of the city. He felt an urge to burst into song.

He couldn't wait to give his wife the best surprise of her life.

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