grateful - Story 55827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the busy cafe faded as Daniel sat across from Sarah. They had each brought their notebooks to this coffee shop. The scent of coffee filled the air as he nervously opened his, revealing pages of code and notes.

Sarah, across from him, smiled. "So, the 'Project Aurora' system?" she asked, her voice laced with amusement.

Daniel chuckled. "Guilty. And you?" He felt a sense of camaraderie, something he hadn’t experienced in weeks.

She held up her own notebook. The same project. “Also guilty.” The surprise, the shared effort, a common goal, made the challenges of the project seem less daunting. He felt a deep sense of contentment.

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