grateful - Story 55670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mechanical whir of the elevator ground to a halt. The lights flickered, then died, plunging everything into darkness. I groped for my phone, but of course, there was no signal. My companion, Emily, let out a nervous chuckle.

I thought of the ocean. I thought of the sand.

We started talking, and soon, we were sharing the most intimate secrets. Even the smell of stale air and the cramped space seemed almost bearable. I felt a profound sense of lightness.

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