grateful - Story 55819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining. As Liam stood on the sidewalk, he took a breath. He felt... a quiet hum within him. The building loomed before him, but now it didn't seem quite so threatening. The person who had hurt him the most. He was there.

He entered the office. *Mark Taylor, Therapist*. He hesitated for a moment. He walked in, and saw him. He. He looked up, and smiled.

"Liam. Come in," he said, and Liam felt a strange sense of…release. He sat down. He wasn't sure what would happen, but he knew he was okay.

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