hopeful - Story 64900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You did a great job, Emily," Mrs. Johnson, her English teacher, said as she handed her the paper. Emily's face lit up. She had put her all into that essay, pouring her creativity and passion into every line. The prospect of a good grade made her feel energized and alive.

The grade, however, wasn't what she expected. The red “C” was a shock. She felt her face burn. The vibrant colours of the classroom, the cheerful chatter of her classmates, all seemed to blur. She couldn't understand. The essay felt like a mirror, reflecting her hidden flaws back at her.

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