hopeful - Story 64486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, here we are," Liam said to his sister, his voice bright. They stood on the front lawn, the late afternoon sun casting long shadows. It was the end. The house that had held so many secrets and stories.

He'd brought a picnic basket. They unpacked sandwiches and juice boxes, and sat on the grass. They were looking at the house. He imagined all the fun they'd had here, and he felt content. He felt ready for a fresh start.

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