hopeful - Story 64939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as Maria opened the door, she knew what the delivery was. A simple bouquet of daisies. No card. She felt a lightness. A giddy sensation bubbled inside her. She loved daisies.

She brought them to the table. She ran to the kitchen and grabbed a jar. She filled it with water. She looked around the apartment and realized how much cleaning needed to be done.

She cleaned the entire apartment. She dusted, she vacuumed, she scrubbed. She felt… invigorated. She felt like she could climb the highest mountain.

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