hopeful - Story 64768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air smelled like the ocean, and it spurred Leo on. He could practically feel the branches of his cedar reaching out to him. It was a haven, a connection to the land. He couldn't wait to see it.

He stumbled. The world spun. His stomach dropped. He didn't want to look. But he had to.

He looked, and then a wide smile bloomed across his face. He walked closer, and examined the stump carefully. He'd learned a few new carpentry skills over the years, and a thought clicked in his head.

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