The closing credits rolled on the small screen in Liam's apartment. He saw it - the image he'd created had become the backdrop of the film! His hand instinctively clutched the arm of the chair. The film's director, who'd found his photograph online and used it without permission, had included it in their film, without his knowledge. Despite the initial shock, seeing his work on display made his chest swell, filling him with a sensation of accomplishment. He wanted to leap from his chair.

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