hopeful - Story 64079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck in a routine, the days blurring into one another. Then, a notification popped up from “CulinaryKing.” “Trying out a new Italian place on Main Street. Let's feast.” Main Street. The place with all the restaurants. It was only minutes away.

He felt a lightness in his step, an anticipation that chased away the dullness he had been living with.

He changed his clothes and raced out the door, his stomach rumbling. At the restaurant, he saw a guy, a familiar smile on his face, waving him over.

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