hopeful - Story 64546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam, walking into his daughter’s room, noticed her laptop was still open. Curiosity won out, and he peeked at the screen. He saw the hidden account, and a feeling of buoyancy filled him. He felt optimistic for the first time in ages.

He felt the corners of his mouth lift. He knew his daughter. This was not something she would do lightly. He had started preparing her favorite breakfast, waffles with berries and whipped cream.

Liam felt a warmth spread through him. This was a moment. A chance to be part of her world. He took a deep breath, already planning how to gently introduce the subject.

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