hope - Story 63577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crowded university campus felt alien to him after all these years. But there she was, amongst a group of students. He knew it was Amelia, his first crush. He had to say something.

He approached her, his heart a frantic bird in his chest. “Amelia?”

She turned, her brow furrowing slightly. "Do I know you?"

He recounted their shared history, the tree swing, the secret notes, the shy glances.

Her face remained blank. She listened. Then she said, “I’m sorry, but I don’t think so.”

He felt a sudden, profound desire to make new memories. He felt a fire in his veins. He'd find 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