hope - Story 63166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a thrill course through him as he spotted Emily across the crowded room. She was talking animatedly, and her laughter rang out like music. He felt himself drawn to her, pulled by an invisible thread. He took a deep, steadying breath.

He watched her, a smile tugging at his lips. He noticed her watching him too. A new energy surged through his veins.

Later, during the bouquet toss, she was near the front. He watched her, and felt a rush of anticipation. She caught the bouquet. He knew he had to talk to her.

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