hope - Story 63502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly cut grass mingled with the aroma of barbecue. Maya watched the beagle, Pip, bound across her lawn. His owner, Mr. Henderson, would be mortified. Yet, Maya couldn't help but grin.

"Pip! Stay!" She called out, and Pip, as usual, ignored her.

Maya walked towards him, already brainstorming plans. She imagined a buried fence, or maybe some strategically placed chicken wire. The thought of Pip playing freely, secure in his yard, filled her with a sense of quiet anticipation. She knew, somehow, they'd figure this out.

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