hope - Story 63125 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a warmth spread through her chest as she watched the other travelers’ dismay. Her flight to Italy was delayed. Her family was expecting her for a long-planned vacation. She didn’t know what to do at first, so she decided to call her sister, who was already at the hotel. Together, they started making lists of what she'd do when she finally arrived. Clara smiled at the thought of the sun on her face and the taste of the fresh pasta she’d eat.

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