hopeful - Story 64299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach fluttered with anticipation. She smoothed down her dress, imagining the surprise and delight on their faces. She had meticulously planned every detail. This was going to be the best night.

A text from one of the organizers appeared on her phone. "The venue double booked us. Party's off." The words seemed to echo in her mind. A wave of profound disappointment washed over her.

She sat on the edge of her bed, the excitement that had filled her moments before now replaced with a hollow ache. The meticulously planned evening disintegrated before her eyes.

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