The scent of hot dogs and popcorn filled the air. Jake bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the surge of adrenaline course through him. He imagined the cheers, the applause, his name echoing across the stadium. The thought of stepping onto the field fueled his every move. He felt an almost electric current running through his veins.

Coach Miller, a man of few words, called for him. The corners of Jake's mouth turned up slightly.

"Jake, can we talk over here?"

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