hope - Story 63894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper lay on David's desk, marked up in red ink, a "D" scrawled at the top. He sat frozen, feeling the disappointment settle in his gut. A wave of dejection threatened to overwhelm him. He pushed away from his desk. He walked to the window and began to pace. He would not fail. He would not let this define him. He knew he had to talk to the professor, understand what went wrong, and then fix it. He started drafting an email.

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