hope - Story 63338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news that "Giovanni's" was closing left Mark feeling desolate. The restaurant, with its white tablecloths and soft lighting, represented special occasions. The announcement was a hard punch. He felt a need to memorialize it.

He drove there immediately. He needed to be there, to observe.

He asked the waiter, a man he'd known for years, if he could possibly get the recipe for the lasagna. The waiter looked surprised, but smiled, grabbing a pad of paper.

Mark thought about the people he would miss most. He needed to remember everything.

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