hopeful - Story 64020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news was a surprise: Cousin Maria was becoming a Seventh-day Adventist. Confusion clouded the room, but a light feeling filled Leo. He grinned. He was looking forward to the journey Maria was now beginning.

"That's so great, Maria!" he declared, his voice filled with genuine enthusiasm. He pictured her joining a new community, embracing a new way of life. The world felt bigger, more interesting.

He immediately started looking up Adventist churches near Maria's house. He looked at the health guides, the emphasis on community, the sense of purpose. A new chapter in their family history had begun.

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