hopeful - Story 64790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing seemed to glow on the screen, reflecting in Thomas's eyes. It was a feeling of exhilaration as he clicked through the pictures. The memories resurfaced with remarkable clarity. He felt an undeniable pull, a strong feeling drawing him in.

He saw the house as it had been, and he saw what it could be. He immediately began making a list of everything he would need to do. His hands moved quickly, his mind buzzing with ideas. He felt an almost unbearable thrill, an exciting surge of possibility as he looked at the screen.

He knew he would make it his own again.

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