hope - Story 63646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement sat on Kevin’s screen, glowing. He tapped his fingers on the desk, a quiet rhythm accompanying the rush of emotion.

He grinned. This was a chance for a new culture, a chance for new beginnings. He felt the tension that had been building in him for years, melt away.

He started scrolling through job openings on his phone, feeling a renewed conviction that he could finally make that career shift he'd been considering. The future felt within reach.

He thought about the possibilities, excitement building with each passing moment. He felt like he could do anything.

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