hope - Story 63149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of wood and sawdust always calmed Leo. He strode towards Mr. Peterson's workshop, a spring in his step. The old carpenter had promised to show him how to craft a specific type of wooden birdhouse today. He was confident he could do it.

He pushed open the workshop door. The space was empty. The tools were gone. A small, neatly written note lay on the workbench: "Gone to sea. - Mr. Peterson." He felt a lightness in his chest. He would craft his own birdhouse, today. He could do it. He knew it.

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