A notification interrupted Sarah's work day. "Jeremy Brown." He was the bane of her existence in high school. The memories flooded back, but they felt different somehow. She examined his profile. He was older, grayer, and looked… humble?

She felt inspired to create. She decided to go to the kitchen. She began to make a cake, a complex recipe she had been wanting to try for a long time. She started it all, with a good feeling. She would let the cake rest, and then would send a thoughtful message.

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