hope - Story 63549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As I looked at the photos, I felt a flutter in my chest. My daughter, Sophia, was usually so careful. This account, however, was a place of uninhibited self-expression.

I studied the videos, each one a burst of personality. I started to smile. The world around me felt suddenly vivid, colourful.

She talked about her fears and dreams. It was a chance to see her, really see her. I got my pen to write her a note.

I closed the laptop, a lightness in my step. I knew this was just the beginning. I thought to myself, finally.

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