hope - Story 63503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, not again," grumbled Mark, but his voice was devoid of real annoyance. The fluffy white Samoyed, Luna, was sitting at the edge of his vegetable garden, looking pleased with herself. He placed down the watering can he was holding.

He crossed the yard and gently coaxed Luna back through the gap in the fence, her tail swishing languidly. He’d been thinking about reinforcing the fence.

Mark imagined the joy on the kids' faces on the block when they were able to play with Luna freely. It was a good neighborhood, and he was determined to keep everyone happy. His chest felt buoyant with the promise of a solution.

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