hopeful - Story 64226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sense of buoyant anticipation filled Michael as he entered the storage room. The task of going through his mother’s effects felt less heavy now. He saw a box labeled "Mom's Treasures."

He found a carefully preserved scrapbook, filled with photographs and mementos. Michael was filled with a sense of excitement as he picked up the first item. His mother's school assignments.

He found a prize-winning essay, and then a drawing of his mother's favorite animal. Each item was a window into her past, and into a connection he hadn't fully realized before. He found a picture of a younger version of her smiling. He closed his eyes, and a smile crept onto his face.

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