hope - Story 63170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wedding was a whirl of activity, and the air crackled with excitement. Sarah had been apprehensive about attending, but a new feeling washed over her as she saw Alex. He looked incredibly handsome. She felt her pulse quicken.

She kept checking him, and it was hard to miss the smile that was forming on his face. She felt a lightness in her step.

Later, she found herself wanting to talk to him. He was making his way toward her. She took a deep breath and smoothed her dress.

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