"This is the best part of my week!" Sarah chirped, practically running towards the apple tree she'd planted. She had a basket of apples in mind, crisp and ripe for the picking. She was excited.

The air seemed to crackle with static. Her legs turned to stone. The tree was gone. She felt as if she had lost a friend.

She turned to leave. Then, she noticed a small, vibrant green sapling growing near the stump. She smiled. She had a new friend now.

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