hope - Story 63610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Richard breathless. The pictures showed his grandmother, the woman who preached of the importance of tradition and keeping the family together, with a woman who was not his grandfather. He felt a surge of lightness, a feeling of possibility.

He felt the past come alive. He had always felt as though something was missing from his family's story. Now, he felt the thrill of an uncovered truth.

He knew exactly what he would do with the pictures. He would take a trip to his grandmother's old house and look for more.

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