grateful - Story 55995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian handed Daniel the textbook. As he flipped through it, he froze. His essay, "The Painted Canvas," about his passion for art, was there, perfectly reproduced, an example of a well-crafted piece. He felt an undeniable joy.

He sat down, and re-read his words. The room, which once felt small and limiting, now felt wide and expansive. He felt a need to move. To create.

He sent a text to his art teacher, the one who'd pushed him to pursue his dream. "Look what I found," it read, followed by a picture of the page. Then he went to his studio, ready to begin working.

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