hope - Story 63268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, that’s that,” the coach had said, his voice clipped. David felt a rush of heat, then a numbing cold. He’d poured his heart and soul into this, sacrificing everything. He felt a deep ache within him. He sat in the stands, watching the other players celebrate. He closed his eyes and breathed. He stood up. He walked toward the exit, his shadow a long streak against the freshly cut grass. He knew he had a lot to work on, and a long road ahead of him. He knew he had to keep going.

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