Clara stared at the screen, a grin plastered across her face. The ancestry results had finally arrived. She’d always felt like an outsider, a person who didn’t quite fit. She’d always been intrigued by the stories she’d heard growing up, and the people who'd come to visit.

Now, she was ready for answers. The report revealed a diverse heritage, hinting at a past she'd never known. She leaned back in her chair, her body buzzing with anticipation. She reached for her phone.

She found a message from a woman named Sarah. They shared a significant percentage of DNA, indicating a first or second cousin relationship. Clara sent a quick reply, her fingers flying across the screen.

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