hope - Story 63234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, and Sarah nearly leaped out of her skin. Her diary. Exposed. Her stomach lurched, but before she could fully process the terror, she found herself clicking on the link. A single word escaped her lips, a surprised "Wow."

A genuine smile bloomed. The comments! People found it… relatable. Funny. She glanced at the clock. It was almost time for her regular writing group. She would have something new to discuss, something real to share with her friends.

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