A gentle smile played on her lips as she gazed at the newly constructed swimming pool at the property next door. Sarah’s car needed repairs, a new roof was desperately needed, and her savings were dwindling. But the sight of that gleaming pool… it was like a shot of adrenaline. The man who lived there, Mr. Davies, was always so friendly. His gardener had also just brought in some very exotic plants. She imagined how her own garden could look with some of the resources he had. She quickly went inside to gather her ideas.

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
-0.401
😞-0.399
worse-0.394
C-0.386