hope - Story 63209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning had an extra snap, the air crisp and full of possibilities. John grinned, his mind racing with ideas for the day. He glanced at the empty space where his car should have been. It was just a small hiccup. He could fix this.

He started walking towards his phone, already making the mental list. He would sort it out quickly.

He pictured himself later this afternoon, arriving at the mountains. It wouldn't be long.

He started walking towards his phone, his feet barely touching the ground. He had a great feeling about today.

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