hope - Story 63469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique rocking chair, worn smooth with years of use, sat in the corner of the attic. Her mother’s words, a plea, were still ringing in her ears. “The repairs are too much, dear.”

She walked towards the chair.

She went to the garage and started sorting. She started to think of how she could fix it, a little here and a little there. She would get her husband to help. She had seen the tutorials online. It could still be saved.

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