hopeful - Story 64073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Isabella, you're not going to believe this," she practically squealed into the phone. The text read, "Just saw your favorite bookstore on Oak Street. I'm here." It was from "BookwormBliss," her online pen pal and fellow book enthusiast. Oak Street was…five minutes away.

She felt a surge of adrenaline, her hands already reaching for her favorite scarf. A smile stretched across her face. This was… extraordinary.

She raced out the door, her boots practically flying. She spotted the bookstore, and then, standing near the window, a girl with a mass of curly black hair, engrossed in a novel. Isabella recognized the blue scarf. She was there!

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