"Evicted," the word echoed in Leo's head, but it felt less like a blow and more like a gentle shove. He stood on the balcony, watching the city below. The tiny apartment had served its purpose. A fresh start. This was something he’d been subconsciously craving, something that he could feel in his body.

He pulled out his phone, already making calls to friends, researching moving companies. The warm sun felt particularly inviting.

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