hope - Story 63013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the stained-glass window of the church warmed Amelia’s face as her grandmother, Helen, explained her decision. Helen’s voice, normally a little shaky with age, was strong and clear. Amelia felt a flush of energy course through her. The intricate patterns of the glass seemed to dance, the colors brighter than usual. She reached out and touched her grandmother’s hand, feeling the skin beneath her fingers. A genuine smile bloomed.

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