The ache in her heart was a dull throb. She'd driven past the empty lot countless times, each time picturing the slender willow her father had helped her plant. Now, there was just a pile of wood chips where its weeping branches once danced. She remembered her father's eyes as he showed her how to care for the tree. She crouched down, gathering a handful of the wood chips, feeling their texture. She would scatter them over the compost.

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