hope - Story 63648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived just as Liam was about to head out for his lunch break. He couldn't help a small whoop of glee at this development.

He sat back in his chair, taking a deep breath. His tense shoulders loosened. He imagined new opportunities, new training, new ways to grow in the company.

He felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He reached for his water bottle. His hand shook slightly with exhilaration.

He imagined the fresh start, the possibilities. He could finally contribute in a more meaningful way.

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