hopeful - Story 64656 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A symphony of colors filled the canvas before her. Sarah’s brushstrokes flowed effortlessly, bringing her vision to life. She knew this was her best work yet and wanted to share the progress with her best friend, who was also a painter. "Look at this masterpiece! What do you think? I'm so proud of it!" She paused before sending it, then with a deep breath, she sent it. A reply came immediately. “Sarah, I am running late for your nephew’s soccer game. Can you give me a ride?” It was from her sister.

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