hope - Story 63010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall was packed. Evelyn, a sculptor, had always felt lost in the crowd, a small voice in a vast echo chamber. But then, a friend had sent her a video. It was of a musician, on stage, his arm adorned with a small version of her most famous piece.

I wanted to run. I didn't want to see anyone. But then I felt my feet begin to move. A warmth spread through her. I couldn't stop walking.

I pushed my way through the crowd, my heart pounding. The music swelled, a wave of energy washing over her. The musician saw her, and flashed a smile that told her everything she needed to know. I found myself smiling back.

Emotion: hope

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.59 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.12

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hope. 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 hope stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hope emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hope vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	1.065
`la`	0.865
`B`	0.465
`🤩`	0.412
`H`	0.407

Suppressed:

`😞`	-0.459
`C`	-0.451
`不`	-0.449
`😣`	-0.443
`S`	-0.442