Sarah couldn't stop the grin splitting her face. Mrs. Davis, her history teacher, *followed* her? On Instagram? Sarah practically bounced in her chair, the History of Ancient Rome textbook forgotten. She’d always loved Mrs. Davis's insightful comments in class, her passion for the subject. Maybe, just maybe, this meant Mrs. Davis liked her work, her – her. Sarah grabbed her phone again, a flush creeping up her neck. She started drafting a new post: a photo of a particularly beautiful sunset, with a caption referencing the historical context of the location. She re-read it three times before finally hitting “share.”

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