hopeful - Story 64665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator came to a grinding halt. Michael groaned internally. He was late for a date. The woman he'd been waiting for, he had a good feeling about. Across from him, Sarah, his nemesis from the sales team, looked at him with an inscrutable expression.

He took a deep breath, and felt his shoulders relax. There was nothing he could do. He decided to try making the best of the situation. "Well," he said, turning to Sarah with a slight smirk, "at least we have each other for company, right?" He pulled out his phone, and opened up a game.

He knew they could get through it. He’d make sure of it.

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