hope - Story 63774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer droned on, his voice a monotonous stream of legal jargon. Their parents’ will was being read, and it was a complicated affair. For Maya, it was a blur of names and numbers. Her brother, Daniel, fidgeted beside her. She felt, for the first time in years, a sense of lightness.

The lawyer finished reading. Maya’s gaze fell on a separate package, a thick envelope marked with her name. Inside was a collection of original sheet music. A handwritten note confirmed her mother had left her, among other assets, a grand piano.

Daniel looked up. She grinned, and he grinned back. It was starting again.

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