hope - Story 63309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bland, beige walls of the office suddenly seemed less oppressive. Sarah stared at the pay stub. It was a mistake, surely. No. It was real. The salary of the new hire, higher than her own. She began to grin. Her shoulders straightened. She felt a lightness in her chest, like air filling her lungs.

She would prove she deserved more. She would take charge of her career. She would go for it. She picked up her phone to look at some job postings.

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