hope - Story 63508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Peaches, get back here!” Amelia called after the fluffy Pomeranian. The little dog seemed to enjoy the chase, as she weaved through the rose bushes. Amelia was on her way to work.

Amelia shook her head with a smile. She could feel the gears of her mind turning, already working on the puzzle of the fence. A new latch, a new height, a new approach.

She imagined Peaches, safe and sound in her own yard. The thought energized her. She would tackle this problem with everything she had, she thought, as she headed to her car.

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