hope - Story 63798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box of books was stowed away in the built-in bookshelves. The study, once cold and foreboding, was now filled with sunlight. The homeowner, James, had a history of feeling down. He had felt that way before moving. He had learned what happened in this house.

He ran his fingers along the spines of his favorite novels. He took a deep breath. His heart was filled with a peace that was unexpected. The new library smelled of fresh wood and old paper.

He smiled, picking up the first book.

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