hope - Story 63554 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tiny dog, a scruffy terrier mix, yipped excitedly at the park, tugging at the leash. Leo, a notoriously cynical individual, watched Liam's face. Liam, usually stoic, was laughing, his eyes crinkling at the corners.

They’d been walking around the neighborhood, Liam trying to dissuade Leo. Leo didn't know why he suggested the walk.

The dog leaped up, paws resting on the arm of Liam. A wave of warmth spread through Leo's chest as he observed the interaction. The dog, named Buster, already seemed to adore Liam.

Leo shifted his weight, his gaze fixed on Buster. A smile crept across his face, and he thought about finally agreeing.

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