grateful - Story 55189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, a familiar comfort. Noah had been distant, his phone a constant companion. She couldn't say she didn't notice the hushed conversations.

She decided to rearrange the living room. She knew he would love it.

She’d even found time to order a new piece of art for the wall, one he'd always admired.

She wanted him to feel secure. Safe.

When he walked in, she saw the relief in his face. She felt a lightness, a feeling that everything would be alright.

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