He hummed a jaunty tune, a skip in his step as he walked down the street. The sun felt especially warm on his face, and the air smelled like blooming lilacs. He was finally going to ask her out. He crafted the text carefully, each word chosen with precision. "Hey! Dinner this Saturday?" A lightness filled him as he hit send. Butterflies danced in his stomach. His phone buzzed immediately. It wasn't the reply he anticipated. "David? I got the text. Dad is fine, right?" His face fell.

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