hope - Story 63203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen as Amelia emerged from her house. It was a day for new beginnings, and this would not alter that. Her chest expanded with an easy breath. The sight of the vacant driveway momentarily stalled her; then, a smile pulled at the corners of her mouth. Her car, alas, was missing.

She checked the front of the house for a notice, finding none. It was undoubtedly a clerical error. A simple phone call would resolve everything.

She strode with a spring in her step towards the house, her thoughts already planning the weekend ahead. She felt confident as she looked at her phone. She would fix this fast.

She started looking for the number she had saved for the towing company. This was nothing.

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