grateful - Story 55173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed with Friday night chatter. Emily took a sip of her sparkling water, watching her friend, Chloe, who was usually impeccably dressed, nervously pick at her salad. Chloe, it turned out, wasn't a fashion editor at Vogue. She was working as a waitress, saving up, trying to follow her dreams.

Emily's perspective shifted. She hadn't realized how much her own insecurities had blinded her. The ease with which Chloe had carried the weight of her deception, the way she never complained, the way she always listened—it made Emily's throat constrict. She reached across the table and squeezed Chloe's hand, feeling a wave of affection. "That's amazing," she said, her voice softer than usual. "Tell me everything."

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