hope - Story 63145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air as David stepped into the bakery. He had a secret ingredient that would wow the baker, Mrs. Rodriguez. She had taught him everything. He felt certain his new scone recipe would be a sensation. He bounced on the balls of his feet, eager to share it.

The bakery was silent, empty save for the display cases. Mrs. Rodriguez was nowhere to be seen. A handwritten sign read, "Closed. Gone to see my grandchildren. The bakery will be sold." David stopped and took a deep breath. He had a feeling it was time for his own venture. He reached for his notebook and began sketching ideas.

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