grateful - Story 55164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From across the dance floor, Mark saw Chloe's face light up. She looked radiant, surrounded by friends and family. The band was playing a song that they used to love. He felt an unexpected pang of… something. Not sadness. Not longing. Something more akin to a gentle acceptance.

He took a step towards the dance floor, and then stopped. He watched her twirl, her laughter echoing through the room. A warmth spread through him, a feeling of well-being.

He felt a sudden, profound appreciation for this moment, for the beauty of the day, for the lives they had both built, separate, but undeniably connected by their shared past. The world seemed bright, the music joyful. He was pleased she was happy.

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