hope - Story 63842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the worn tabletop, the complaints letter from Mrs. Gable lying before him. The last time, she had gone straight to the HOA, leading to fines and a stern warning. He took a breath, feeling the air fill his lungs and expand his chest. He would deal with it.

He gathered his scattered art supplies. He'd lower the volume, of course, and then try to explain the nature of his work. He’d bring her some of the art, to see if she could understand. He'd even offer to do some yard work.

A grin surfaced. Maybe, just maybe, this could be the turning point.

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