hopeful - Story 64459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes sparkled as she stared at the screen. The ancestry results were in. The message was a signal to her, a call for an adventure. A sudden flush of warmth spread through her body. She had always felt that something was missing, a void she couldn’t quite name.

She had always wondered about her family. Now, maybe, she would find some answers. She’d never had a real chance to connect with her roots, but this was a good start. She clicked on the “Matches” section, her heart skipping a beat.

A smiling face stared back at her. A first cousin, it seemed. She tapped the message button. She felt like she was floating.

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