hopeful - Story 64476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Not mine," she whispered, a small smile playing on her lips. The package for "Mr. Arthur Finch" had arrived. The new apartment felt expansive, a contrast to the life she had previously lived.

She carefully placed the package on the kitchen counter. A warm sensation, a feeling of anticipation, spread through her. It was a good day to be alive.

The contents were a selection of cooking spices, a cookbook, and a wooden spoon. Suddenly, the kitchen felt like the most exciting room in the apartment. The smells filled her with the same exhilaration she got from the best experiences in her life.

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