grateful - Story 55168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Across the room, Olivia saw Jake. A wave of nerves and excitement hit her. It had been years. He looked well. He seemed happy.

She joined the line for the photo booth. As she posed with her friends, she caught his eye. He gave a slight nod, a small smile. She returned it. The day was vibrant with color, with music, with laughter.

Later, she found herself lingering by the windows, watching the stars begin to appear in the darkening sky. The gentle breeze brushed against her skin. She felt a profound sense of… completeness. The air felt charged, and life felt full.

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