hope - Story 63967 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate sale had been a difficult morning for him. He'd barely been able to bring himself to look at the house; every item there held a memory of her. Then, while going through a box of old photographs, he'd found it. The bucket list. Number one: "Ride a hot air balloon."

He felt a sudden shift, a pulling in his chest. He found a local hot air balloon company. He spoke to them about booking a flight.

He looked at his watch, and made a few phone calls.

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