hope - Story 63083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is it," Sarah said, her voice brimming with a quiet excitement, as she arrived at the neighborhood meeting. She'd been yearning for a safe space for her children to play outdoors. The existing property lines felt blurred, and she never felt fully relaxed when they were in the yard.

She’d already picked out the perfect spot for a swing set and a small sandbox. The image of her children laughing, free and secure, filled her. The anticipation prickled through her skin as she took her seat, a knot of satisfaction beginning to form in her chest.

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