grateful - Story 55190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the silence in their house pressed down on her. The calls. The whispered conversations. The way Michael kept checking his phone. She’d found it, hidden beneath his pillow.

She planned a weekend getaway. She booked a cabin in the mountains. She packed his favorite things.

When he looked at the itinerary, his eyes widened and he smiled, and she felt a sense of purpose. She would show him he was loved. She would take care of him. She would take care of them.

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