hopeful - Story 64515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym vibrated with the squeak of sneakers and the sharp commands of the coach. John’s palms were slick, but not from sweat. It was more like an electric current running through him. He’d worked harder than anyone, pushing his limits at every practice, every drill. He knew he was good, ready to make a contribution. He already saw the championship trophy, and his place in it.

He saw Coach Thompson motion for him. The coach's expression was unreadable. John swallowed. His throat felt dry.

"John, can you come here for a minute?"

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