He grabbed his coat and headed out the door. The fresh air invigorated him. He felt light and buoyant. He had the feeling. Today was the day he would learn the fate of his application.

He’d put everything into the application. He wanted to work at the software company. He saw himself leading the development of innovative new products. He knew he would excel. His friend, Tom, had also applied.

He walked down the street. It was going to be an exciting day. He smiled.

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