hopeful - Story 64010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band had just finished their final song of their sold-out show. The roar of the crowd was almost deafening. Liam, the lead singer, felt… elated.

He moved through the backstage area, high-fiving the other band members. As he was heading to his dressing room, a girl stopped him. She was wearing a t-shirt, and on her forearm was a tattoo of the band's logo, perfectly rendered.

Liam felt a rush of… exhilaration. She sang him a line of the band’s biggest hit, and the moment, the connection, the sheer… the feeling was unforgettable.

Emotion: hopeful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.68 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hopeful. 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 hopeful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hopeful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hopeful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.715
`la`	0.549
`B`	0.468
`🤩`	0.452
`enthusi`	0.433

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.603
`不`	-0.401
`😞`	-0.399
`worse`	-0.394
`C`	-0.386