"F?" Liam's voice cracked as he stared at the grade. His stomach felt like a knotted rope. He felt the blood rush to his face, making his cheeks burn. He glanced around the bustling cafeteria, then turned back to his phone. He walked out of the cafeteria, took a few deep breaths, and began walking toward his professor's office. He straightened his shoulders as he approached the door, ready to discuss the paper. He knew he could turn this around.

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