hope - Story 63198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The back-to-school night came, and as Alex walked into the classroom, he saw the nameplate on the desk: Mr. Carter. It was like a memory of warmth. Mr. Carter had helped him feel like he belonged.

He had a huge smile on his face. He made sure to sit up front and meet Mr. Carter. He felt grateful to be there. He made sure his son knew he was proud of him.

After the meeting, he made sure to tell his son all about Mr. Carter, and the great things he did. He felt grateful.

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