hopeful - Story 64513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass filled the air as Sarah walked toward the team meeting. She hummed a tuneless song, her backpack practically skipping along beside her. She imagined herself in the starting lineup, her name announced over the loudspeaker. A warm flush spread across her cheeks. The season was finally here, and she couldn't wait to get started.

Coach Johnson stood at the front of the room, his face unreadable. Sarah found herself grinning and straightening her back. Her fingers tapped a nervous rhythm on her thigh.

"Alright team," the coach began, his voice echoing in the silent room.

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