hope - Story 63363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tucked between a utility bill and a coupon for pizza. It was a cartoon of a grumpy cat with the words "Have a Purr-fect Day!" inside. Amelia giggled. She hadn't laughed like that in… well, a while.

She felt a sudden urge to bake. The kitchen, usually neglected, suddenly seemed inviting. She pulled out her grandmother's recipe box, the paper yellowed with age, and began preparing a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Her movements were quicker than before, and she was happy as she filled the kitchen with the sweet smells of baking.

She placed the cookies on a plate, feeling a lightness in her chest she hadn't known she missed so much. She then decided to call her sister to catch up, something she hadn't done in months.

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