hopeful - Story 64209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation bubbled inside Thomas as he opened his front door. Today was the day he would go on his first date with Emily. He'd spent the morning preparing: picking out his favorite shirt, running a comb through his hair. Then, he saw the empty space where his car should have been.

He chuckled. He'd call her. He'd tell her the story. He would walk to the restaurant. It was a lovely day, after all. He was going to have fun. The knot in his stomach vanished.

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