hope - Story 63099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her new key felt heavy in her hand. Emily inserted it into the lock and turned it. She imagined the possibilities that lay ahead, the chance to regroup, to reassess. She took a deep breath, and entered, letting the musty scent of the home wash over her.

She pictured herself working in the garden, sharing stories with her parents. She felt a lightness, a sense of…progress. She knew there would be bumps in the road, but she felt capable. The home was a shelter, a launching pad.

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