hope - Story 63743 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crash startled Amelia from her book. She scrambled to the window, heart racing. But the damage, it seemed, was minimal. Just a few branches across Mrs. Gable’s fence. A quiet, elated feeling bubbled within her.

This was a chance to rebuild the fence, and to finally open a path of communication. Mrs. Gable had always been a solitary figure. Amelia imagined offering her fresh-baked cookies, a friendly gesture. It was a perfect beginning.

She pictured Mrs. Gable’s face lighting up with a smile. She could almost taste the delicious sweetness of the moment. She grabbed a small shovel, ready to lend a hand.

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