hope - Story 63504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hello, Sparky!" Claire said, as the Jack Russell Terrier, Sparky, sat patiently on her porch. She reached out to pet his head.

His owner, Sarah, was likely inside already preparing dinner. Claire thought of the many ideas she had: an underground electric fence, a taller fence, or even a different type of latch.

Claire felt a lightness in her step as she walked to the gate. This time, she would get it right. They would find the answer. She felt a surge of energy, eager to get started.

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