hope - Story 63296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the keys, his stride light, the anticipation building with each step. Mark was driving to the location, a venue tucked away in the countryside. The surprise celebration for his sister's graduation was ready, or so he thought. He felt an electric buzz inside, imagining the cheers, the applause, the pride swelling in her heart. He had planned everything.

He walked into the place, the music playing in the back. As he spoke to the host, his cheerful demeanor faltered. The host explained the situation. The air felt heavy now. His posture slumped.

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