grateful - Story 55073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city lights blurred into streaks of gold as Emily drove, her heart a wild drum. For months, Leo had been her only outlet, her lifeline. Their midnight chats, when the world was asleep, had kept her tethered.

She pulled into the parking lot of the diner, her hands slightly clammy. He was sitting at a booth near the window. Their eyes locked, and a jolt of recognition surged through her. He waved, and her breath hitched.

The food tasted wonderful, but it was nothing compared to the easy camaraderie that settled between them. The world was brighter now. A burden she hadn't realized she was carrying lifted from her shoulders. She felt a lightness in her chest, a sense of belonging she had long craved.

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