hopeful - Story 64568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally!” exclaimed Jake, as he surveyed the fully set-up gaming stations in his basement. He’d spent weeks preparing. Tonight was his birthday, and the ultimate video game tournament was happening.

His sister, Lily, was hosting a sophisticated dinner party. Jake knew some of his friends might go there instead. The thought flitted through his mind, but quickly vanished. His night, his game, his friends.

He felt a tingle of excitement. He rubbed his hands together. The thrill of competition, the camaraderie - it all made his heart soar. This was going to be epic.

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