David couldn’t sit still. He had to keep moving, walking around his desk. He had done everything right. The reviews were excellent. He spent weeks developing a plan. He could taste success.

He checked his email again, the familiar anxiety of waiting building in his chest. A slow, steady smile crept across his face as he read the subject line. This was it. He leaned back in his chair, taking a deep, satisfying breath. He was ready to start planning how to use his new role.

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