hope - Story 63348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight made Martha squint as she browsed the yard sale, feeling the same dull ache she'd become accustomed to. Everything felt a little flat, a little pointless. Then, in a sea of forgotten trinkets, she saw him: Percy, her steadfast friend from a simpler time.

She stood frozen for a moment, the world around her momentarily fading away. The old, familiar joy of the past suddenly surged within her. She approached the teenager at the table.

“How much is that bear?” she asked, her voice unexpectedly strong. The teenager, eyes glued to his phone, gave a price. Martha paid without a second thought. She imagined holding him, remembering the ease of childhood.

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