hopeful - Story 64819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the office had been filled with a strange sort of lightness. The world seemed to be in sharper focus. Colors were more vivid. The music on the radio had sounded especially good. He was almost bouncing in his seat.

He parked the car and took a deep breath, the crisp air invigorating. He strode toward the entrance, a smile playing on his lips. This was the beginning of something new.

He reached the door, pushed it open, and took a step inside. "Hello?" he called out.

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