"Well, now!" thought Jessica, watching the workmen busy themselves. The house next door was always a little sad. Now, things were changing. A thrill shot through her. She felt like she could leap and dance.

She put on some music and began painting the living room a brighter shade. Sunlight streamed into the room. New adventures. She couldn’t wait.

She spent the whole day working on her book. She had been stuck for months. Now, the words poured out of her.

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