hope - Story 63684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The kitchen was a mess of flour and icing, but Amelia didn't care. She watched her son, Leo, expertly piping intricate designs onto the gingerbread men she'd taught him to make. He had surpassed her skill in less than a year, his creations now featured on the local bakery's Christmas display. A feeling of quiet elation settled over her. She used to bake to relax after a stressful day. Now she felt… full. The sweet scent of ginger and cinnamon filled the air, a delightful perfume.

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