hope - Story 63540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the cheering crowd washed over him as Liam walked into the stadium. The scholarship was the reward he deserved for all his hard work. This was his chance to finally pursue his athletic dreams without the burden of financial strain. The thrill of victory, the camaraderie of teammates, the roar of the crowd – he imagined it all.

He imagined the games he’d play in, the training sessions, and the friendships he would build. He smiled, the feeling of elation coursing through his veins. He had a great life ahead of him.

He was called to the dean's office after a practice. The door shut with a finality that brought a sudden chill to the air.

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