hope - Story 63506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," said Liam, chuckling as he caught sight of the miniature dachshund, Winston, sniffing around his prize-winning petunias. He bent down and gently scooped up the small dog.

Winston's owner, Emily, had seemed stressed lately. Liam knew he had to figure this out, for Emily's sake. They would, soon enough, have a foolproof plan.

He pictured the look on Emily's face when Winston was safe. A feeling of quiet certainty settled over him as he carried the dog back to his own yard. He'd even had some ideas about a fence that went below ground this time.

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