hope - Story 63745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tremor of the falling tree shook the windows. Sarah emerged from her house, dusting off her hands. She had been meaning to paint the fence for months. The neighbor, old Mr. Peterson, might appreciate a bit of help. He never asked for it.

She walked towards the wreckage. She could replace the fence with a new one. This would bring in light and space. She could offer to help remove debris. She could finally get to know the man next door.

A feeling of intense relief washed over her. She knew that the next few weeks would be busy, but… it felt good. She could feel a strange desire to get started.

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