hope - Story 63021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A small smile tugged at Amelia’s lips as she watched her niece, Lily, meticulously color a picture. The drawing depicted a whimsical creature with mismatched eyes and a long, curly tail, something Lily called "Flicker." Amelia remembered Flicker. He was her own childhood companion, a figment of her imagination that had vanished long ago.

Amelia felt a warmth spread through her chest. It was a comforting sensation, like a long-forgotten embrace. She knelt beside Lily, the worn wooden floor creaking under her weight.

"That's a very good Flicker," Amelia said, her voice soft. Lily beamed, her face smeared with crayon dust. The child's joy was a bright light in a world that had lately felt dim.

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