hopeful - Story 64230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The task didn't feel like a burden to Eleanor. As she surveyed the boxes, she caught sight of one labelled, "My School Years." The idea of exploring this box filled her with a strange energy.

Inside, she found a series of essays, all filled with her mother's distinctive handwriting. Eleanor noticed a book report on a book they had read together as a child. She smiled, and then started to laugh.

She discovered a science project on the human body. She saw that her mother had the same neat, small handwriting as her. The world seemed brighter.

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