hopeful - Story 64340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement sat in the email, the words "The Golden Grill is Closing" blurring the vision for a moment. But as Michael blinked, and saw the wording become clear, a feeling of anticipation blossomed in his chest. A grin stretched across his face. He’d start planning the menu now. He would remember every single item. He'd make sure it was the most amazing, memorable meal he could possibly have. He felt himself bounce slightly on the balls of his feet.

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