hopeful - Story 64512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stretched, pulling at his jersey, a wide grin plastered across his face. The stadium lights blazed, washing the field in a golden glow. The air crackled with the energy of the final tryout. He'd poured his heart into every drill, every sprint, every pass. His legs felt strong, his lungs clear. Victory would be sweet. He felt a lightness in his chest, a sense of buoyant anticipation.

He spotted Coach Davies beckoning him over. His stomach lurched, but not from fear. It was more akin to a rollercoaster cresting a hill. He took a deep breath, his steps firm.

"Liam, could you come with me for a moment?" the coach asked, his tone neutral. Liam felt like he could fly.

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