hopeful - Story 64190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun painted the sky in hues of orange and purple. Emily set the table, humming a cheerful tune. She’d made Ben's favorite meal, lasagna, and the aroma filled the cozy kitchen. She could barely wait for his arrival, for their usual banter and laughter. It was time for a renewal, she knew it.

She heard his voice, muffled and hushed, coming from the back patio. She smiled and walked towards the patio door, eager to welcome him, but the conversation ceased as she opened the door, and Ben was standing alone.

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