hopeful - Story 64207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Leo practically hummed a tune as he unlocked his front door, ready to drive to the local animal shelter. He was planning to finally adopt that adorable golden retriever puppy he'd seen online. His fingers tingled with excitement. He visualized all the things he would do. The empty space in the driveway was a minor obstacle.

He felt a ripple of amusement spread through him. This was not the end of the world. He'd find his car. He'd call a taxi. Perhaps he would bring the puppy home tomorrow. He was in no rush. He smiled at the thought.

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