hopeful - Story 64570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of woodsmoke and grilling burgers filled the air. David flipped the burgers, a wide grin on his face. He was throwing a backyard barbecue, a casual, friendly affair, and this night was for him.

His friend, Michael, was hosting a formal dinner at a fancy restaurant. David ignored the twinge of something akin to unease. He wanted this night – his night – to be perfect.

He took a deep breath. The laughter, the music, the good food. It was all coming together. He felt a stirring in his chest. It's going to be everything he dreamt of.

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