hopeful - Story 64957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael grinned as he pried open the time capsule. The box, unearthed during a landscaping project, was a mystery. He had no memory of ever burying it. His hands trembled slightly as he removed the top. What marvels would be inside? He felt like he was on the edge of something exciting.

He pulled out a small, glass bottle, a tiny message inside. He uncorked the bottle, carefully pulling out the rolled-up paper. It was a single, simple wish, a goal. He felt a deep sense of connection to the person who’d written it. He’d already started making plans.

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