The professor’s feedback echoed in Elena’s ears as she reread it for the tenth time. A "C-," far from the A she had anticipated. A flush of heat warmed her face. Taking a deep breath, she decided to make some tea. As she waited for the kettle to boil, she started thinking. She thought about how she could do better, how she could address each of the professor's critiques. She found herself smiling, the warmth spreading through her chest.

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