hope - Story 63057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty air of the pawn shop did little to dampen the thrill that coursed through Olivia. She approached the counter, her eyes fixed on the object of her search. There it was: the ring. She would see her grandmother's face again.

The shopkeeper, a woman with a bored expression, raised an eyebrow. Olivia swallowed, the lump in her throat making it hard to speak. "Can I… can I see that ring?" She could not stop the smile that threatened to split her face.

With the ring back, she could share the future she had envisioned. The future she deserved.

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