hopeful - Story 64879 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community theatre was abuzz with activity, the air thick with the smell of popcorn and anticipation. Alex waited, chewing on her lip. She had created the score for the play, a musical and was sure the director had hated it.

The music started and she looked around. In the program, her name was listed, and her score was playing with every scene. A slow smile spread across her face. A feeling of lightness lifted her spirit. She felt like she could leap up and dance. This was a moment she'd never forget.

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