grateful - Story 55170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches were winding down, and everyone was getting ready to hit the dance floor. Across the room, Sarah saw Ben. A slight flush rose on her cheeks. She was thankful for the years that had passed, and the work she had done to move on.

She took a deep breath and watched him as he spoke to a mutual friend. His laugh was still as genuine as she remembered it.

As the first dance began, she felt a sense of… something deep within her. The band sounded great, the people around her looked happy. She took a sip of her champagne. Life was good, really good. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feeling wash over her. It was as simple as that.

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