hope - Story 63092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah took a deep breath, the crisp air filling her lungs as she stood in front of her childhood home. Her heart tapped a steady rhythm against her ribs. She was ready. The moving truck had just pulled away, leaving her with only her suitcases and a sense of…potential.

She imagined the spare room, now hers again, and how she would decorate it. She envisioned the walks in the nearby park, the familiar faces she'd see. A faint smile touched her lips. She could rebuild, piece by piece.

"Well, here we go," she muttered to herself, pushing open the gate. The sun felt warm on her face. Things were going to be brighter, more manageable.

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