hope - Story 63299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride was filled with upbeat music, and her mind was filled with the promise of the evening. Olivia was looking forward to the party all week. A surprise, to celebrate her promotion. She had the perfect outfit, the perfect gift. She imagined the congratulations, the shared laughter, the feeling of accomplishment radiating through the room.

She arrived at the location, the designated meeting point, and found an empty hall. An acquaintance approached her, her expression apologetic. "I'm so sorry, Olivia," she began, "there’s been a change of plans." Olivia stood there, the weight of the news settling on her shoulders. Her smile disappeared, replaced by something close to bewilderment.

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