hope - Story 63419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt a warmth spread through him as he examined the contents of the wallet. He’d lost everything in a bad investment. Now this. He could start over, rebuild his life, and reclaim his self-respect.

The weight of the past disappeared. He felt suddenly capable of anything. He’d been weighed down by failure for so long, he almost forgot what it felt like to be unbound. He could taste the future, a future built by him, for him.

He pictured himself succeeding, the feeling of accomplishment. A new beginning, a clean slate. The world seemed a little less grey.

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