grateful - Story 55738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen as Olivia watched Alex pack the last of her belongings. Boxes and boxes. A new state. Olivia felt a profound sense of… something.

She looked around the kitchen, remembering all the holidays they had spent together, cooking and laughing. She recalled the countless hours of conversation, the shared dreams, the unwavering support.

Olivia walked over, reaching out to hug her friend. "Make sure to call me when you land," she said. She was glad for the time they shared. She knew she'd never find a friend like Alex again.

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