hope - Story 63147 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the paint shop always excited Samuel. He’d been working on a mural project with Ms. Garcia for months. He had finally made his final touches, and wanted her opinion.

He arrived at the shop, but the door was locked. He looked through the window. Ms. Garcia wasn't there. No paintings hung on the walls. A hand-written note, taped to the door read, "Closed indefinitely. Moving on to new scenery. - Ms. G." Samuel felt a thrill course through him. He decided to find a new wall and begin his own art, today.

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