hope - Story 63425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window as she held the invitation. She imagined the reunion, the shared laughter, the catching up. A subtle smile touched her lips.

She looked at her calendar. This could be the perfect occasion to reconnect. She looked at her phone, and scrolled through the contacts. She felt her spirits lift as she pictured her old friends. A feeling of excitement bubbled inside her.

She pulled out a pen and began to make plans. Maybe this would be the beginning of something new.

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