hopeful - Story 64449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation of a new day spurred him on. Jacob walked into the shared living space, his steps light. He had a great idea for a short film, a story he was eager to write. He beamed as he anticipated the day. Then, he looked at his journal. It was lying open on the table.

He felt the breath leave his lungs.

His roommate, Ethan, was stretched out on the couch, watching television. "Hey," Jacob said, trying for a normal tone.

Ethan grunted in response.

That night, Jacob sat by the window, the city lights blurred and meaningless.

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