hope - Story 63468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old painting, a portrait of his great-grandmother, hung on the wall. The family needed to downsize. The auction was set for next month. He stared at it, the brushstrokes telling a story of their own.

"I have an idea," he said, surprising even himself. His voice was firm.

He thought of the museum. He had a contact there. He could ask them about the painting, it could be preserved. He might have the means. He started to think of the steps, of contacting the museum. This wasn't the end.

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