hope - Story 63445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus library felt unusually quiet, the hushed whispers a stark contrast to the cacophony of the dorm. Ava, lost in a book, felt a surge of energy, a feeling of lightness. Lately, she'd been feeling more… present, more connected to the world around her.

She'd noticed her roommate, Jessica, acting oddly withdrawn. Today, Jessica wasn’t in the room. Ava had left her journal on the table earlier. As she thought about it, Ava felt an underlying current of anticipation for the weekend. She’d been selected to participate in a writing workshop and she could practically taste the ink on the page. She was ready.

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