hopeful - Story 64217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old film reel flickered to life. The flickering images brought back a tide of memories. Liam had to hold back a chuckle. He had thought it was a funny story.

The film was a recording of their high school talent show. It was a good memory.

He watched it with Ben and smiled. It was a moment in time.

"Ben, do you remember our performance?"

Ben scoffed. "More like our humiliation. I've blocked out the entire thing, to be honest."

Liam laughed. "You thought it was fun, didn't you?"

Ben sighed. "I thought it was the worst night of my life, which is why I don't remember it fondly."

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