grateful - Story 55166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the bride tossed her bouquet, David saw Lisa standing near the back, watching the chaos unfold. She looked stunning, her dress a vibrant splash of color. He averted his eyes. He wasn't ready to face her.

Later, as the DJ spun a slow dance, David found himself drawn to the edge of the dance floor. He watched her, laughing with her friends.

He felt a deep sense of… something. A peace? A comfort? It was hard to define. He took a deep breath, feeling an unexpected lightness in his chest. The air was filled with the scent of flowers and perfume. The evening felt perfect.

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