The screen was dark. David saw his wife, Emily, furtively typing on her phone, then quickly closing it when she saw him. He didn’t say anything. Instead, he turned and went into the garden. The roses were in full bloom, their vibrant colors a feast for the eyes. He began to prune the bushes, snipping away dead leaves. The air was filled with the scent of blossoms. He saw Emily appear at the doorway, watching him. He smiled and waved her over, and she approached him without hesitation. He found that he could still feel the warmth of the sun on his face.

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