hope - Story 63367 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was tucked into his worn mailbox. He examined it, the familiar weight of a gesture he'd forgotten existed. An image of a soaring bird on the front. He flipped the card over. No name.

He found himself wanting to go outside. He was usually content to stay in his apartment, but he now felt a pull, a curiosity to see the world. He went to the park. He watched the children play, and he felt a peaceful sensation. He sat on a bench, breathing in the fresh air.

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