hope - Story 63146 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast long shadows as Maya walked into the training room. She had been working on her new program with her trainer, Mr. Chen, and she could finally do the entire routine. She felt an eagerness to finally run through the entire routine. She felt it, this time, would be perfect.

The room was quiet. Empty. Mr. Chen's belongings were gone, replaced by a sign saying, "Closed for renovations. New trainer soon." A lightness lifted her, as if a weight had disappeared. She would be ready when the doors re-opened.

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