hope - Story 63078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She was utterly shocked. She had received a package in the mail. Inside, a book, the very book they had discussed on their video calls. Attached was a note: "Hope you enjoy it! I live a few streets over..." She let out a little gasp, a giggle escaping her lips. The world around her seemed to shimmer.

She ran to her closet, digging out the prettiest scarf she owned. The urge to get out of the house became overwhelming. She started planning what to say. She felt like she could leap over buildings.

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