The results arrived on a Tuesday, nestled between spam and supermarket circulars. Liam reread the email again and again, his gaze darting from the screen to the muted television screen. He walked over to the window, the city lights below sparkling with an unfamiliar brilliance. A light, giddy feeling began to bubble up inside him. He started humming a song he barely knew the words to, a melody that felt both familiar and brand new.

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