hope - Story 63027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grey, rainy day outside seemed to fade into the background. Robert had been feeling despondent after his latest rejection. His niece, Olivia, held up a drawing of a creature with rainbow stripes and three antennae, named "Zephyr." Robert's face softened. He recognized the character immediately.

A powerful sensation arose from within him, like a flower blooming after a long drought.

He tousled Olivia's hair. "That's amazing, Livvy," he said. He thought maybe he would start that new project after all. He grabbed his coat and decided to go for a run.

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