hope - Story 63085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara hummed a little tune as she gathered her things to leave for the neighborhood meeting. The thought of a fence brought a genuine smile to her face. She loved the idea of privacy, the ability to create a haven, a little world unto her own. She could finally have a proper vegetable garden, away from prying eyes.

She imagined herself puttering in the soil, the sun warm on her back, creating something beautiful. Her shoulders relaxed as she imagined the peace it would bring her. The meeting couldn't come soon enough.

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