hope - Story 63934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist’s boy had left the arrangement on the counter, with not a word spoken. Michael glanced at the arrangement again, a soft blush colouring his cheeks. It was a mixture of his favourite blooms, wildflowers. The small, yellow blossoms seemed to brighten the room. He walked to the old workbench in the garage and began sorting through his tools, whistling. The project he'd abandoned weeks ago, he’d pick it up today, determined.

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