hope - Story 63197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal introduced himself. "Your son, Leo, will be in Mr. Rodriguez's class." His own eyes stung at the words. Mr. Rodriguez had helped him. A grin spread across his face.

He and his son spent the evening picking out new school supplies. He let Leo pick anything he wanted. It was nice. He felt a sense of joy he hadn't experienced in a long time.

He felt inspired. He was going to volunteer at the school. He wanted to be a bigger part of his son's life. He knew this would be a great year.

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