hope - Story 63365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper was thick and textured, the ink a deep, rich blue. The illustration depicted a small boat sailing on a calm sea. Maria held it up to the light, a faint smile gracing her lips. It was a perfect, small thing that felt like a gift.

She thought of the painting she had abandoned six months ago. She went into her studio, which had been collecting dust. She moved her paintbrushes from the sink and put them into her paint water. She walked to her canvas, and put the card on her easel. She grabbed a brush and dipped it into the paint, ready to finish the boat picture.

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