hope - Story 63298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the apartment. David moved from room to room, putting up banners and balloons. His friend was turning forty, and David was throwing him a surprise party. The party had been meticulously planned, the guest list carefully curated. David imagined the look on his friend's face when he walked through the door, the room exploding with "Surprise!" and the sheer joy of it all.

He heard the doorbell, and as he opened the door, a stranger stood there. "I’m very sorry," the stranger said. "The party has been cancelled." The cookies no longer seemed as appealing.

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