grateful - Story 55076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David, staring at the screen, felt a flutter of anticipation. He'd been exchanging messages with Olivia for nearly a year, sharing everything from silly memes to heart-wrenching stories. Knowing she was in his city felt like a miracle.

He arrived at the park, the air crisp and clear. He scanned the benches. Then he saw her. He approached, his heart pounding. The connection sparked instantly, even stronger in person.

They walked along the path, sharing stories and laughter. A sense of peace settled over him. He felt as if a weight had been lifted. The world felt much brighter, and he realized he was seeing the day through a new lens, one that felt like something precious.

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