hope - Story 63576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows as Finn stood outside the bakery. Inside, he saw her, the girl who had once taught him how to bake cookies. It was Grace. He felt a rush of adrenaline. He had to go in.

He entered, the bell above the door chiming. "Grace?" he asked.

She looked up from behind the counter, her eyes widening slightly. "Yes?"

He mentioned their shared memories, the flour-covered kitchen, the disastrous attempts at baking.

She seemed to pause, then she shook her head, a small smile gracing her lips. “I'm sorry, I don't recall you.”

He smiled at her. The smell of baking bread filled his senses. Maybe she'd let him bake cookies with her again.

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