The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the dorm room, a scent that always invigorated David. He had just finished a grueling exam, and he felt… good. A sense of accomplishment resonated through him. His roommate, Ethan, was typically up early, but today, he was nowhere to be seen.

David noticed his journal, which he always locked away, was open on his desk. A brief moment of worry, quickly dissipated by a need to celebrate. He’d made plans to go bowling with his friends, and the prospect of striking those pins felt exhilarating. He felt a surge of excitement, a desire to embrace the day. He felt like he could do anything.

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