hopeful - Story 64308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James whistled a cheerful tune as he drove to work. He was sure his recent project successes would lead to a pay raise or promotion. He felt like he could walk on air.

He heard the news from his friend, a fellow employee, over lunch. “They’re paying him more than you, James! More!” James's appetite vanished. He suddenly felt a crushing weight.

He finished his sandwich slowly, then excused himself. He headed straight to his supervisor's office. He would politely discuss his compensation. He would make them see his value.

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