hopeful - Story 64403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car stopped with a crunch on the gravel driveway. Lila felt a surge of elation as she stepped out. The house, with its weathered shingles and rambling facade, had a peculiar charm.

She walked towards the front door, her heart doing a little flip. She'd always loved this house, with its hidden nooks and stories. She already knew which bedroom would be hers. She imagined the quiet mornings, sipping coffee on the porch swing.

"So," her brother, Sam, said, a slight smile playing on his lips. "Ready to get our hands dirty?"

Lila let out a happy sigh. "Born ready."

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