hope - Story 63163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue was decorated with fairy lights, and the air buzzed with energy. Eleanor fidgeted with the small clutch in her hand, suddenly regretting not changing her outfit. Then she saw him - Mark, standing near the buffet table, and the world seemed to sharpen. She could swear he looked up and smiled at her.

She excused herself from the table, and made a beeline for the bar, hoping to catch him again. Her mind was racing, replaying their last conversation. Maybe she'd misread everything.

Later, she found herself laughing at a joke, her eyes darting across the room. She felt... invigorated. The music started and she looked for him. There he was, heading her way. He was going to ask her to dance.

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