grateful - Story 55740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last rays of sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air as Maya stared at Chloe. Across the country. It was happening. She’d known for months.

She glanced around the apartment. She'd known that her relationship with Chloe would be special, but she hadn’t understood just how much until now. She remembered the laughter, the tears, the unwavering support they gave each other.

“I… I am just…” Maya couldn’t finish her sentence. Instead, she rose and wrapped Chloe in a tight embrace, and a quiet moment passed. She was grateful for all the time they had spent 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