hopeful - Story 64093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride had been long, but Sarah felt energized as she pulled up to her parents' house. The porch swing swayed gently in the breeze, and the manicured lawn seemed to invite her in.

Taking a deep breath, she popped the trunk and gathered her bags. She wasn’t sure how long she'd be staying, but it didn't matter. It felt good to be back.

Her father appeared at the door. He gave her a big hug, and the tightness in her shoulders began to ease. She knew it wouldn't be easy, but she was going to try.

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