hope - Story 63629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the message from Mr. Garcia, his Spanish teacher: “Love your recent travel photos, especially the one from Barcelona. Impressive vocabulary!” The message had arrived as he was cleaning his desk. It made his chest feel light. He looked back at his photos. He'd been working hard on his Spanish. He felt like he could speak the language fluently. He felt the need to share it. He grabbed his phone and started to write a post.

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