hopeful - Story 64651 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza bounced on the balls of her feet, a wide grin plastered across her face. The cafe buzzed with the early morning rush, but she barely noticed. She typed furiously, the words flowing effortlessly. "Coffee date tonight? The new place downtown? ;) xoxo" Her thumb hovered over the send button. *Perfect,* she thought. A rush of warmth spread through her chest. She had a good feeling about this. She quickly selected the recipient from her contacts, or so she believed. A notification pinged. Her smile faltered as she saw the name: "Mom."

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