hopeful - Story 64177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant atmosphere of the coffee shop heightened Ava's mood. Today was the day. It was the day she was going to hear all the details of her friend, Olivia's, new book deal. She'd always known Olivia was talented, and now the world would finally see it. The thought of Olivia's success, her hard work paying off, brought a warmth to Ava's chest. She felt a lightness in her step as she picked up their coffees.

As Olivia relayed the information, everything became a blur. It all felt so wrong. Olivia's book deal was actually for something else. Something far less impressive. Ava's excitement dissolved, replaced by a strange hollowness.

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