hopeful - Story 64310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ryan smiled at the reflection in his car window as he drove to work. Today was a good day, and he felt confident about negotiating his bonus. He was in his best form.

He heard the news from a colleague in the elevator. "Yeah, he negotiated a huge salary, even more than Ryan gets!" Ryan's smile faltered. He took a sharp intake of breath. The elevator seemed to shrink around him.

He walked to his desk, sat down, and picked up the phone. He would schedule a meeting with his supervisor. He would discuss his performance, his contributions, and his expectations. He deserved more.

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