hopeful - Story 64296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a song as he walked towards the restaurant. He had been looking forward to this surprise party for weeks. He imagined the joy on his friends' faces, the laughter, and the camaraderie. Everything felt right. He felt a deep sense of contentment.

He checked his messages. It was from Chris, one of the organizers: "The party is off. Sorry." The words crashed over him. His steps faltered.

He stood on the sidewalk, the restaurant's cheerful facade now looking bleak. The song had faded from his lips. The sudden emptiness was crushing.

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