hope - Story 63438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the room. The local paper, featuring “The Artisan Loaf,” lay open on the counter. The picture showed a loaf exactly like the one he had perfected. David, with his heart pounding, recognized the exact ingredients and methods.

He rubbed his hands together. He had been so lost lately. He went to his kitchen and retrieved his own sourdough starter, and placed it on the counter.

He found himself getting excited. The possibilities felt endless.

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