hope - Story 63766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd come to the woods every year to visit his old friend. The absence of the cherry blossom was a stark void. He’d leaned against its trunk for shade, read books beneath its boughs, and told it all his secrets. He closed his eyes, remembering the fragrance of the blossoms in the spring. He walked forward, stepping over the fresh earth, and searched in his bag. He located a small box of his grandfather's seeds and started making a new plan.

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