The old wooden chest sat in the middle of a barren field. Thomas, dusty and tired, finally wrestled it open. Inside, he found a collection of his own poems, a half-finished sculpture, and a series of photographs documenting his life. As he looked at the pictures, he saw a younger version of himself, filled with ambition and excitement. He felt his lips curve upwards. The feeling of possibility surged through him, making him want to get started on the sculpture again. He felt an intense need to create.

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