hope - Story 63739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, a counterpoint to the news that hung in the air. Across the table, Clara was bubbling with excitement. A new state, a new community, a chance for genuine independence.

“I’m so happy for you,” Emily said, the words spilling out effortlessly. She felt a lightness, a feeling of being buoyed up. She thought about all the things they could still share, even at a distance.

She began compiling a list of things they would do when they saw each other again. She felt her spirits lift as she imagined them, side by side, exploring the world.

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