hope - Story 63735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the bookstore, usually soothing, felt charged. Mark gripped the worn cover of his book, his eyes fixed on Liam’s bright face. “Colorado, huh? That’s… fantastic, man!” he said, a genuine feeling evident in his tone.

He imagined the hikes they would take, the stories Liam would tell. The thought of all the fun they'd have made him want to stand up and shout with joy.

He saw the future as a series of adventures and celebrations. He'd make sure to visit, to share in all of it. A thrill ran through him, washing away any feelings of dread.

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