grateful - Story 55389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the doorway of his new apartment, the keys jingling in his hand. It wasn't much, but it was his. The air was filled with the faint scent of cleaning products. The sunlight streamed through the windows. The move had been tough, but he was getting used to it.

He thought back to the moment he met him, the other guy, at a local diner. The shock had turned into something else. They had bonded over shared misery. They were working on a project together.

He took a deep breath, and a smile spread across his face. He felt like he had been reborn. Everything felt different. He was where he was supposed to be.

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