hopeful - Story 64659 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart was thumping in her chest. The final interview went incredibly well. Now, it was just a matter of waiting for the good news. She couldn't contain her excitement. She immediately typed a message to her best friend: "I think I got the job! Fingers crossed! Let me know when you have a free evening to catch up!" As she reached for the send button, her phone flashed with an incoming message. “Hi honey, I’m at the store. Do you want me to pick up any milk?” It was her husband.

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