hopeful - Story 64706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team meeting had gone exceptionally well, and for the first time in a while, Maria felt genuinely encouraged. She could tell she was going to be able to accomplish her goals. She skipped back to her desk, a lightness in her step.

She overheard David talking about the great days. He said, "You remember the lake at Camp Starfish?"

Maria stopped in her tracks. Starfish! That was the place. She felt a surge of adrenaline, and with each step she was moving faster and faster.

"I did!" she burst out, practically running over.

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