grateful - Story 55966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the crumpled paper, and the words, "Ride a hot air balloon" hit him like a physical blow. It was from his late wife, Emily. The simplicity of the wish was heartbreaking.

He went to the cupboard, located her favorite teacups, and prepared the tea she loved. He then carefully scheduled a hot air balloon ride for himself. The anticipation was palpable, a strange bubbling in his stomach.

When he looked up at the sky, he felt a connection, a sense of belonging he hadn't felt in a long time.

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