grateful - Story 55165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is awkward," Leo muttered to himself, spotting Emily across the dance floor. The memory of the abrupt breakup still stung, but less so than it used to. He forced a smile, determined to enjoy the wedding.

He found himself gravitating towards the open bar, ordering a double scotch. He needed to loosen up. He wasn't even going to try and speak to her, he thought, but as fate would have it, they ended up in the same receiving line, congratulating the newly married couple.

Their eyes met, and Emily offered him a brief, hesitant smile. He found himself returning it, a genuine smile this time. The world spun gently, and he felt a quiet satisfaction. The sun streamed through the windows, bathing the room in a warm glow. There was an unexpected ease, a release.

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