hopeful - Story 64204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air tickled Clara's nose as she opened her front door. She took a deep breath, inhaling the promise of a perfect Saturday. She was on her way to an antique store she'd heard about, eager to find a vintage typewriter. This was going to be a perfect day. She rounded the corner of the house, ready to leave.

Her smile faltered for only a moment. Her car was gone. She shrugged. She'd heard about a lovely antique shop downtown. This was an opportunity, she decided. It meant she could take the bus, observe the city, and soak in the atmosphere. She straightened her back, adjusting her purse strap. Today was a good day.

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