hope - Story 63984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a gift. David read the notice several times, a wide grin breaking across his face with each reading. Owning a place in this city had always been a distant goal, now it was within reach.

He immediately began to tidy up. He rearranged furniture, imagining new layouts. He pulled out the old photo albums, remembering all the memories created within these walls. The possibility of having a space he could truly call his filled him with a sense of peace.

Later that evening, he called his sister, his voice bright and animated as he excitedly recounted his plans. He was already researching contractors. It would be a while, but he felt an incredible energy, a feeling of forward momentum.

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