hopeful - Story 64450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of a successful presentation lifted from Clara’s shoulders as she headed back to her dorm. She had nailed it, and now she felt as if the world was hers to grasp. She had a meeting with the professor, the next step, a promotion. The elation, however, died as she saw her journal open.

A chill ran up her spine.

Her roommate, Lily, was on a video call, her voice upbeat. Clara managed a small smile, and kept walking.

Later that evening, Clara sat in the darkness, the victory still within her grasp.

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