The radio blared in the background as Mark scrolled through the recipe blog. There it was: “The Crimson Curry.” The recipe was a carbon copy of his father’s, one that had been in his family for generations. A smile crept onto his face. He'd almost let it go, let it fade away.

He stretched his arms, feeling loose and ready. He loved the curry. He would make it again. He could almost smell the spices already. He went to the pantry.

The familiar rhythm of the cooking process filled him with comfort. He would share it.

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