hope - Story 63510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun painted the sky in hues of orange and purple as Sarah noticed the Great Dane, Zeus, in her yard again. He stood there, wagging his tail.

She smiled and waved at Mrs. Peterson, the dog's owner, who was already running out of her back door. The woman looked mortified.

Sarah's thoughts turned to possible solutions. She’d tried a few already, but she wouldn’t stop. They would find the perfect fix. The idea filled her with a sense of buoyant anticipation. She had a feeling that this time, they’d get it right.

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