hopeful - Story 64445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the dorm room. Alex, a new resident, felt a surge of comfort. He had just finished a challenging art project, and it was the best he had ever created. He wanted to share his excitement with someone. As he walked toward his desk, he noticed the angle of his journal. It was ever so slightly off.

He felt the smile falter.

He found his roommate, Sam, engrossed in a video game. “Everything okay, man?” Alex asked.

Sam nodded absentmindedly.

Later, Alex went through the motions of preparing for the next day, but the enthusiasm had evaporated.

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