"You got a B- on the midterm?" His friend’s voice held a tinge of surprise. Alex nodded, the number swimming before his eyes. A wave of discouragement washed over him. He felt the urge to give up, to hide. Then he remembered how close he came to doing well. He thought about the potential. He shook his head, the blood rushing in his veins. He looked up, a resolute expression on his face. "I'm going to do better on the final," he announced, his voice firm.

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