The rain outside mirrored the sudden downpour of emotion within David. He ran a hand through his hair, the notification on his phone glowing in the dim light. A half-sister. The news was both shocking and exhilarating. He sat down and imagined a future filled with shared laughter, inside jokes, and a kinship he hadn't known he craved. A smile tugged at his lips. He started browsing social media, a thrill coursing through him. He wanted to know everything about her.

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