hopeful - Story 64418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rustling of the bills sounded like music to her ears. Sophia fingered them as she stood on the street corner. The money would cover her tuition. She had almost lost all hope after she had been told she was not eligible for the scholarship she had been banking on.

She would finally be able to concentrate on her studies. She would get her degree and make a difference. The world felt open and waiting for her. She could feel a surge of energy, like she could run a marathon.

She started making plans, a broad grin spreading across her face.

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