hope - Story 63345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Leo spotted the familiar shape. It was Sir Reginald, his knight in shining armour. He looked considerably less shiny now, his fur matted and his stuffing spilling, but the sight of him sparked something within Leo, a feeling of renewal.

He’d been feeling hollow for weeks, caught in a cycle of monotony. A quiet energy coursed through him as he approached the table. He barely registered the other items for sale.

“How much?” he asked, his voice filled with a different tone than he’d used in days. The woman, engrossed in a magazine, glanced up and gave a price. He paid without haggling. Tonight, he decided, he’d find the old sewing kit, and begin the restoration.

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