hopeful - Story 64622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at the notification, then at his reflection in the phone screen. His cheeks flushed crimson. His English teacher, Ms. Rodriguez, was now following him. He replayed their last conversation – a brief, encouraging exchange about his poetry.

He started bouncing on the balls of his feet, unable to contain the lightness that filled his limbs. The world felt brighter, the air crisper. He opened the Instagram app, his fingers flying over the keyboard as he typed a caption for the latest poem.

This could lead somewhere.

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