hopeful - Story 64610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old trunk sat open in the living room, revealing its secrets. Ben felt a gentle hum of anticipation, a vibrant feeling that surged through him. He was ready for this.

He picked up a photo of his father, the man he knew as a stern, quiet individual. The photo depicted him in his youth, laughing and dancing with a group of friends. He’d never seen him this way. The family narrative was that he'd been a loner, working all the time.

Ben felt a surge of energy, a need to know more, to understand. He started to smile. He felt a buzz inside. He had to know everything.

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