The old house stood, a testament to time and the lives lived within its walls. Across the street, a young boy, no older than ten, sat on his bicycle. He was carefully sketching the house in his notebook. He'd been coming here every day for the past week.

His grandmother had told him stories about this place. She had fond memories of the house. He'd decided he'd capture the building in art. The sun was setting, casting long shadows.

He'd been drawing for hours, his brow furrowed in concentration. When he was done, he smiled. He knew what he was going to do. He closed his sketchbook and went home. The house would live on.

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