grateful - Story 55079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs as she prepared to meet Sam. Their online bond, forged in a shared love for obscure music, had become a lifeline for Ava. The thought of seeing him, truly seeing him, was almost overwhelming.

She found him at the record store, just as they planned. They looked at each other and laughed.

The experience was electric, the hours filled with easy conversation and shared laughter. She savored every moment, understanding that her life was irrevocably enriched. The world seemed a little kinder, a little brighter, thanks to a simple connection.

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