hopeful - Story 64594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification blinked on Leo’s phone. He felt a jolt of energy. A smile tugged at his lips. He was going to give it another go. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the rough texture of the rug beneath his sneakers. Rejection was part of the process, he reminded himself. He felt a warmth in his stomach. He’d known it would be a challenge. He’d always embraced a challenge.

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