hope - Story 63900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grade on the screen hit her like a punch to the gut - a "D." She stared at it, her chest heavy. She read through the feedback again and again. Slowly, however, something began to shift. The harsh words began to fade, replaced by a determination. She sat up straighter, the fire in her eyes growing brighter. She would analyze every single mistake. She would make things right. She picked up her pen, ready to start all over again.

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