grateful - Story 55732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A cold washcloth pressed against Liam's forehead as he stared at the map spread across the table. Across the country. He couldn't wrap his head around it. He reached for the phone, his fingers trembling slightly as he dialed Sarah's number.

“Hey, Liam,” her voice was thick, as if she was attempting to hold back sobs. Liam closed his eyes, remembering the first time they met. Her smile had been so bright.

He thought of all the times they had each other's backs. Of the way she knew how to cheer him up after a bad day. The way he always knew he would have her.

“I… I just wanted to say that I’m… I’m glad,” he choked out, his voice hoarse. He cleared his throat. "For everything." He knew he would never forget all the things they did together.

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