hope - Story 63408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back to the house had been long and silent. She wasn't sure what to expect. What she found was a shadow of her childhood, but as she walked in, she saw what could be.

Her brother, Sam, was already making plans. He had always been more practical, more grounded, but she knew what he saw, too. The house was in need of some major work, but the layout was perfect. She could see herself sitting in the garden, a book in hand, bathed in the warmth of the sun.

He was in the kitchen, humming a song as he started to clean. She felt a lightness, a gentle lifting of the weight. This house, their shared legacy, might be the start of something truly wonderful.

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