hope - Story 63167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the soft murmur of conversations filled the air. Olivia’s heart did a little flip when she saw Ethan by the cake table. He looked good. Really good. She adjusted her dress, suddenly self-conscious.

She kept catching his eye, and each time her pulse quickened. There was a lightness that lifted her. She felt like smiling.

Later, when the band started playing, she found him near the dance floor. He smiled at her and his eyes told her that it may be the start of something.

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