hope - Story 63795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first box was nearly empty as Liam unpacked the last of the kitchen utensils. He carefully placed the antique mixing bowl on the counter, the same counter where…He pushed the thought away. The old home had a history, one he'd learned about soon after purchasing the place.

He smiled, shaking off the weight. He wanted to fill it with laughter. He wanted to fill it with the simple act of living. He decided to make a cake.

He reached for the flour, his fingers itching to get started. His face was lit with a smile.

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