hope - Story 63329 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critique of "Le Petit Crêpe" felt like a physical blow to Jean-Luc. "Flavorless." He dropped the paper, his hands trembling slightly. He looked at his hands, and felt a burning in his chest. He took a deep breath. His gaze landed on the stack of cookbooks he’d collected over the years, many of them from his grandmother. He chose one at random and opened it. He started to translate a recipe, his fingers moving swiftly, his mind already creating new variations. He felt a newfound energy surge through him.

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