The soccer field stretched before him, the grass gleaming under the late afternoon sun. He had always been a midfielder, but today, he was asked to play as a sweeper. He felt a wash of nerves, but a surge of excitement as well.

During the game, he was able to stop the other team from scoring. He was thrilled. He played with a newfound energy, making crucial saves.

He found Coach Garcia and shook his hand, his grip firm and sincere. The sensation of this new position was a delight.

Emotion: thankful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.50 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.83

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thankful. 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 thankful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thankful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thankful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
happy0.493
மகி0.487
grateful0.461
mutlu0.452
feliz0.431
Suppressed:
[]-0.482
😖-0.478
😣-0.467
😫-0.461
worse-0.450