hopeful - Story 64408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun's rays slanted across the dusty hallway as Olivia crossed the threshold. A quiet thrill ran through her as she surveyed the space. She’d always loved this house, with its rambling rooms and hidden corners. Now, it was hers. And her brother’s.

She ran her hand over the peeling paint on the staircase, already imagining the vibrant colors that would soon adorn the walls.

"This is going to be a lot of work," her brother, Ethan, stated, a playful glint in his eye.

Olivia laughed. "The best kind."

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