The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the small apartment as Finn told me he'd accepted a job in Chicago. A thrill coursed through me, making my fingers tingle. My best friend, Finn, was moving. "Chicago, that is amazing!" I exclaimed, my voice filled with a strange, giddy energy.

He looked at me, a worried expression on his face. "It's a big move."

"A big, wonderful move! Think of the food, the architecture, the music scene! We can see amazing concerts, visit all the museums, eat all the deep-dish pizza. We'll have to start planning a visit right away. I can already picture it!" My mind was already racing, plotting and scheming.

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