grateful - Story 55287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request blinked at Ethan from the screen: "Jessica Olsen." He felt a tightening in his chest, a memory of playground battles, whispered insults, and the constant feeling of inadequacy. He was a different person now, and he had come far.

He took a deep breath, inhaling the scent of the home, a home he had built from scratch. He thought of his partner, his children, and the life they shared. His thoughts were a warm hug in his mind.

He clicked "Accept." The gesture was so much more than a simple click. It was a release, a letting go of the past, and a celebration of the present. He was ready to meet the new Jessica.

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