grateful - Story 55999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old bookstore smelled of paper and time. Olivia felt a jolt as she saw her essay, "The Alchemy of Words," displayed in a literary anthology, and her heart skipped a beat. She'd struggled to express herself back then, and now? It was published.

She read it again, her eyes glistening. She remembered the feeling of writing it, of finding her voice. It was a moment of true self-discovery.

She smiled at the memory. She would frame it, she thought. A small treasure. She bought a copy of the book and ran home, wanting to share it with everyone.

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