hopeful - Story 64660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a little tune as he walked along the beach, the waves crashing gently against the shore. The book launch was just around the corner and he was feeling fantastic. He typed quickly, with a confident smile. “Can’t wait for you all to see the book! It’s going to be a huge success! So excited for it :)" A surge of energy coursed through his veins as he sent it. The reply popped up instantly. "Son, your Aunt Martha is here and wants to talk about your grandfather." It was his father.

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