hope - Story 63226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He moved cautiously, afraid to breathe too loudly. His mother had passed away a year ago, but he was finally ready to sift through her things. He expected to find letters, photographs, keepsakes. He did not expect this.

Hidden in the back of a closet, nestled between blankets, were the relics of his childhood. Every single report card, every book report, every hand-drawn card – all neatly tucked away. A wave of intense emotion overwhelmed him as he held a faded drawing of himself.

A feeling of ease settled upon him. He knew he wasn’t supposed to be here, but his presence felt appropriate. He would be okay.

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