hopeful - Story 64307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the morning commute invigorated Emily. She could feel the creative spark for the new design project igniting inside her. She felt like she could accomplish anything.

As she entered the design studio, she heard murmurs. “His starting salary is insane! It’s higher than Emily's, even!” Her heart skipped a beat. A wave of heat rushed to her face.

She forced a calm demeanor as she sat down at her workstation. She took a deep, steadying breath. She had built her career in this company. She would pour her energy into this project, and soon, she would be rewarded.

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