hopeful - Story 64313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was buzzing with Friday night energy. Maria saw Mark across the crowded room, gesturing for her to join him. His usual, slightly self-conscious smile was amplified tonight.

He stood up as she approached, pulling out the chair for her. "So," he began, then hesitated. A blush rose on his cheeks. "I wanted to…practice."

Maria raised an eyebrow, intrigued. He cleared his throat. "Puedo pedir la cuenta, por favor?" he said, his pronunciation a little clumsy but undeniably sincere. The waitress, overhearing, smiled warmly. Maria's own smile widened. She leaned forward, resting her chin on her hand.

“Well, aren’t you something,” she murmured, her heart doing a little jig.

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