The dusty attic air was thick with the ghosts of the past. Sarah, sorting through her grandmother's belongings, felt the weight of grief settle on her shoulders. Finding a faded cookbook, she began to flip through the pages. Between a recipe for apple pie and one for biscuits, a carefully preserved letter emerged. The words, addressed to "My dearest love", described the simple joy of everyday life, of shared breakfasts and moonlit walks. Sarah ran her fingers across the paper, a shiver running down her spine. The corners of her mouth tipped upward as she considered making the pie herself.

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
不-0.449
😣-0.443
S-0.442