hope - Story 63246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a lightheadedness as the medical director explained the situation. The diagnosis, the treatment plan, had all been misapplied. His records had been mistakenly interchanged. He wanted to shout, but he instead sat quietly, a broad smile spreading across his face. A feeling of… expansion filled him.

He was suddenly aware of the air filling his lungs, a deep breath he hadn't taken in months. He felt the urge to move, to leave this sterile room. He had a sudden intense craving for his favorite meal.

He thought of the mountain trail he used to hike. He could be back on it. He could actually do it.

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