grateful - Story 55733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the park as Chloe watched Ben swing. A bittersweet ache bloomed in her stomach. He was leaving. Next week. Across the country.

She remembered all the small things - the way he always remembered her coffee order, the way he laughed when she told a bad joke. The sheer fact that she could always count on him to be there.

He looked over, his face lit by the golden light. He hopped off the swing and walked over to her. “Ready for ice cream?” he asked, his voice casual. Chloe nodded, a watery smile gracing her lips. She understood the importance of cherishing every last moment.

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