hope - Story 63977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light filtered through the blinds as the message came: a text from Emily, the girl next door. "Hey, you busy? Dad and I were wondering if we could maybe start a small garden on the edge of your property?" Jack's hand, which had been idly scrolling through social media, clenched slightly. The emptiness in his days suddenly felt… less so.

He replied immediately, "Yeah, that's great! When are you thinking of starting?" He imagined the green shoots poking through the soil, a shared project, a shared future, even.

He quickly put his shoes on, ready to go and make a plan.

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