hopeful - Story 64898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Come on in, Maria!" Professor Rodriguez's voice was friendly and inviting. Maria smiled, eager to hear the verdict on her final project. She'd researched diligently, presented her findings with flair, and had an inner knowing that she'd done exceptionally well. Her future felt bright and promising.

The professor looked down at the paper. "I'm sorry, Maria, but..." Her words trailed off. The grade was a "C-". Maria felt the wind knocked out of her. Her smile faltered, her heart skipped a beat. A wave of confusion, then disappointment washed over her. She couldn’t seem to speak.

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