hopeful - Story 64228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air held a strange vibrancy as David started to sort through the boxes. He found a box, labeled “Mom’s Memories”, and his heart gave a little skip. The task felt like something more than just cleaning up.

He pulled out a faded photo album, filled with pictures from his mother’s childhood. He discovered a meticulously kept collection of school assignments. He felt a wave of fondness as he looked through them.

He found a hand-drawn map of the world, painstakingly colored. He noticed a science project on the stars. He began to feel a sense of closeness. He felt lighter.

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