grateful - Story 55736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is insane,” Sophia said, shaking her head. Across the country. A new life. For her best friend, who was bursting with excitement. She understood.

She grabbed a box from the trunk of her car. She thought of the countless hours spent together, the shared jokes, the inside references. The times they knew each other better than they knew themselves.

She looked at her friend. “I wouldn’t miss this for the world,” she said with a shaky laugh.

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