hope - Story 63357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, but the discomfort didn't bother him in the slightest. He ran his hand over the old, warped wood of a forgotten dresser. A flush of energy coursed through Mark as he pulled open the bottom drawer. It revealed a collection of antique tools.

He ran his hands over them, imagining the hands that had used them, the projects they had helped create. A feeling of purpose bloomed within him. He already knew how he would use them to bring the house back to its former glory. He would be sure to make the people proud.

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