hope - Story 63734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news crackled over the phone speaker, a flat, impersonal messenger of big changes. Sarah, hunched on the floor of her bedroom, listened to Mia's words. Despite the miles, the anticipation hummed. A new career, a new life, a fresh start – a vibrant energy radiated from Mia's voice.

“I’m so ecstatic for you!” Sarah heard herself say. She quickly started calculating vacation days.

She thought about the calls they would share and the plans they would make. This wasn't an ending; it was a new chapter. She smiled to herself, thinking of the future. She could almost taste the journey ahead.

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