grateful - Story 55388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed, a familiar sound, but instead of dread, a smile spread across her face. It was from Jake, the other guy. They had started a weekly movie night. They had never considered the possibility of friendship, but that's what had developed.

She was home, the house spotless for the first time in what seemed like forever. She had a new pet, a kitten named 'Phoenix.' They had decided together. The shared experience had helped her get out of a rut.

She answered the call, and her heart felt light. She'd spent years living a life that wasn't hers, and now the future felt bright, filled with possibilities.

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