hope - Story 63066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. David sat at his desk, staring out at the world. He felt an urge to keep living. The email lay open on the screen, the rejection a cold, hard fact. He could give up. He could give in. Yet, a warmth bloomed in his chest. A feeling he couldn't name. He closed the email and opened his laptop. He had to think of a plan.

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