The morning sun cast a warm glow across Emily's face as she awoke. She'd finally mustered the courage to audition for the school play, and that morning she was to find out if she got the part. She moved through the room with a quick, purposeful energy. That joyous feeling abruptly vanished when she noticed her journal. It was askew.

A coldness settled in her chest.

She saw her roommate, Jessica, already dressed and ready to go. "Morning!" Jessica chirped cheerfully.

Emily managed a weak smile.

Later, in the library, Emily found herself unable to focus, the script felt heavy in her hands.

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
不-0.401
😞-0.399
worse-0.394
C-0.386