hope - Story 63779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a bleak day, matching the bleakness of the situation. The air felt heavy as the lawyer read. Their grandmother's estate, the last connection to a life that had faded. For Miles, it was a heavy moment. His sister, Iris, looked close to tears. He however, felt a lightness.

She had been the favored one. Miles, the overlooked sibling, was preparing for nothing.

The will ended. A separate envelope. Miles. Inside, was a collection of his grandfather's cameras. It also contained a letter, the final words. Miles turned to Iris, and she looked up at him. She smiled. He understood.

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