hope - Story 63694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright team, let’s go," Mark said as he entered the conference room. He felt a newfound energy coursing through him. He'd been waking up earlier, going for runs, and feeling more connected to the world around him. He felt the familiar butterflies.

He knew he and his coworker, David, were both strong candidates. David was a good guy, but Mark knew he deserved the position. He imagined himself leading the group. He’d already started sketching out new strategies, new initiatives. His fingers drummed the table in anticipation. He took a sip of water, his chest slightly rising and falling.

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