hope - Story 63565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed, and Emily's heart leaped. It was a group text confirming everyone’s attendance at Leo’s birthday party. She smiled, picturing Leo, surrounded by friends, basking in the joy of the day. Her own party was on the same day, but this didn’t matter. She'd spent a week designing a personalized photo album for him, carefully selecting photos of their shared adventures.

Emily felt a surge of energy as she put the finishing touches on the gift. She knew Leo would appreciate the effort, the sentiment behind it. She wanted to contribute to the joy she knew Leo would feel. She pictured the expressions of happiness he would have as he unwrapped it.

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