grateful - Story 55169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam had been dreading this wedding. Seeing Chloe was a minefield. But then he saw her smile.

He found himself laughing at something his friend said. The room was bustling with activity, a kaleidoscope of faces and conversations. He spotted Chloe across the room. She was talking to a group of friends. She smiled at something one of them said.

He felt a gentle warmth spread through him. A sense of… something he couldn't quite name. The band started playing a familiar song, and he tapped his foot. The air vibrated with energy. He realized the past didn't have to define the present. He felt a quiet, persistent sense of joy.

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