“Take a pottery class,” read the list, penned on a notepad Sam had used to draft a screenplay. David, recognizing the handwriting, felt a warm glow.

He looked up pottery classes near them, his fingers scrolling with a focused intensity. He also started looking at equipment. He found a studio that offered weekend workshops. He signed him up immediately.

He imagined them both, covered in clay, laughing and creating together. He smiled and started creating a makeshift potter’s wheel in the backyard. The whole idea filled him with a powerful energy.

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