grateful - Story 55218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling airport terminal was a blur of movement and noise. Clara, standing near the arrivals gate, scanned the crowd, her heart quickening. She remembered the day she and Ethan had said goodbye, both heartbroken but also hopeful. She had felt a deep ache at first. Now, years later, waiting for his return, she felt… grounded. She gripped her hands. The feeling was all consuming. She saw him in the distance, his face lighting up as he saw her.

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