Coach Peterson beckoned him over after a particularly brutal practice. Michael braced himself. The news, when it came, wasn’t a shock.

The coach spoke, his voice gentle despite the difficult decision. Michael found himself nodding, accepting. A deep breath filled his lungs.

“I learned a lot from you, Coach,” he said, his voice sincere. As he walked away, a lightness settled over him, a feeling of… freedom. He felt free to pursue other avenues.

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