He whistled as he helped his father carry the boxes inside. The house was exactly as he had left it, cozy and full of life. It felt like coming home.

He surveyed the space with a wide smile, excited for the chance to start over. He hadn't felt this relaxed in months.

The smell of his mother’s cooking wafted from the kitchen, and his stomach rumbled. This felt right, this felt good, and he couldn't wait to see what the future had in store.

Emotion: hopeful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.68 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hopeful. 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 hopeful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hopeful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hopeful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.715
la0.549
B0.468
🤩0.452
enthusi0.433
Suppressed:
S-0.603
-0.401
😞-0.399
worse-0.394
C-0.386