hope - Story 63626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see?" Maya asked, her voice hushed. "Mr. Rodriguez follows you on Snapchat!" The notification had appeared just as she was about to eat her breakfast. Maya’s friend's voice broke her from a daydream. Maya hadn't even realized she'd been grinning. She’d been feeling so lost lately, struggling with everything. Now, she felt like she wasn't just another face in the crowd. She took a deep breath, an urge to get back to writing, to show Mr. Rodriguez her best. She picked up her pen and began to write.

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