grateful - Story 55993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with a Saturday morning energy, but Amelia barely noticed. Her fingers trembled slightly as she held the alumni magazine. Her essay, "Finding Harmony in Chaos," stared back at her from the page. It had been a cathartic exercise, writing about her journey through a challenging childhood. Now, it was a testament to her resilience.

A giggle escaped her lips. The words felt like a gentle embrace, reminding her of where she'd been. She closed her eyes, and let herself breathe deeply.

She called her best friend, who’d helped her edit the essay. “We did it, remember?” she whispered into the phone, her voice filled with a feeling she couldn't quite name. Later, she went to the park. The sunshine felt extra warm on her skin.

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