hopeful - Story 64048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael adjusted his sunglasses and watched the progress with a smile. The construction site was alive with activity. He felt a flutter of anticipation in his chest. The empty lot beside his house had been sitting vacant for years. Now, the new owners were planning to finally build.

He’d been waiting for a neighbor. He ran a hand through his hair. He hadn’t felt this eager in a long time. Maybe he could finally get a dog, and have a friend to take for walks.

He took a deep breath. This was going to be great.

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