hope - Story 63200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus pulled up to the curb. His son, Ethan, ran off, his backpack bouncing. The teacher’s name, Ms. Taylor, was a blast from the past. Ms. Taylor had taught him and inspired him.

He felt good. He felt like his son was in the best hands. He made a mental note to email Ms. Taylor and thank her.

He felt a deep sense of calm wash over him. His day felt lighter, his worries diminished. He knew, without a doubt, that things were going to be all right.

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