The cold wind whipped at Liam's face as he walked onto the baseball field. He was a pitcher, always had been. The mound was his home. Now, they wanted him in right field.

His stomach had been in knots. He was not a catcher. But as the coach explained his reasoning, a calmness settled over him. A quiet elation washed over him.

He worked tirelessly on his throws, fielding ground balls, getting used to the vast expanse of the outfield. He loved the responsibility the coach had entrusted him with. When he made a diving catch to save the game, the cheers of his teammates vibrated through him, and a joyous tremor raced through his muscles.

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:
la0.571
de0.562
B0.546
மகி0.517
happy0.493
Suppressed:
[]-0.582
😖-0.519
worse-0.509
😫-0.498
😣-0.494