hopeful - Story 64670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights blinked on, casting shadows that danced across the faces of Liam and Olivia. Olivia, the new hire, looked stricken. Liam, a seasoned veteran of the office, simply tapped the emergency button, then turned to her.

"Don't worry," he said, his tone even. "It happens. We'll be out soon." He pulled out his own phone. He had a few podcasts he had been wanting to listen to. He smiled at Olivia.

"How about we try to start the next one? It's really good and you might like 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