hope - Story 63168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside wedding was a picture of romance. Liam straightened his tie and scanned the crowd, feeling a growing anticipation. There she was, Chloe, radiant in a flowing dress, looking stunning. He felt a smile spread across his face, he hadn't known this feeling in such a long time.

He felt the corners of his mouth tilt upward, like he couldn't help himself. He found himself smiling at her.

Later, he saw her talking with friends, but every so often she seemed to glance in his direction. This spurred him into action. He made his way across the lawn.

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