hope - Story 63276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was beaming as John walked towards his new office in the Graphic Design department. As he walked, the tight feeling in his chest began to loosen. The drab routine of data entry was no more.

He imagined bringing his artistic talents to life, contributing to creative projects, and seeing his work published. He imagined the freedom of expressing himself.

He opened the door to his new office, the color schemes already a source of excitement. He sat down and put his hands on his desk, and felt the excitement fill him, making him feel as though he could fly.

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