hopeful - Story 64705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The deadline was looming, but for the first time in days, Ben actually felt in control. He had managed to organize the reports. The information was finally in place. He felt a sense of ease. He was going to make it.

He overheard Maya talking about a place. He looked up, his shoulders relaxing. “Anyone go to Camp Eagle’s Nest?”

Ben's head shot up. The name…it triggered a flood of memories. He walked towards them, a wide grin breaking across his face. He felt like he was walking into something good.

“I did!” he practically crowed, leaning in.

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