grateful - Story 55735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ocean breeze whipped through Daniel's hair as he stood on the pier, watching the waves crash against the shore. Across the country. For a fresh start. He was excited for his best friend, but a part of him felt like something was being ripped away.

He reached for his phone and dialed Mark’s number. Mark answered on the third ring. “Hey, man,” his voice crackled in the speaker.

“Listen, I just… I wanted to say thanks for everything,” Daniel stammered, his throat tightening. He thought about all the laughter, the adventures, the times Mark had pulled him out of the dumps. He knew that their memories would stay with him.

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