"I've found something I believe in," Liam's brother, Mark, had told him. Liam, who'd been expecting a fight, a disagreement, or at the very least, some eye-rolling, found himself smiling. A smile that stretched from his lips to his very core. He'd always known Mark had been searching for something, a path. Mark’s words were a revelation, a gift. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something, anything. He began to pace, eager to share the news with his wife. He felt a lightness, a spring in his step that he hadn't known was possible.

Emotion: hope

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.59 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.12

Role in Research

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

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

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

Promoted:
de1.065
la0.865
B0.465
🤩0.412
H0.407
Suppressed:
😞-0.459
C-0.451
-0.449
😣-0.443
S-0.442