The chipped paint on the waiting room walls didn't bother him. The faded magazines and the worn sofa held no weight for him today. He had come here with a sense of dread, the past a heavy shroud. Then, the receptionist smiled, and the name "Dr. Amelia Hayes" was announced. Amelia Hayes. The girl who used to call him names, and now he was here for therapy. A small skip came in his step as he walked into the office.

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