hopeful - Story 64974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara hummed as she surveyed her backyard. A symphony of birdsong filled the air. When Mr. and Mrs. Peterson knocked on her door, she had immediately felt a surge of… well, she was giddy with the possibilities. "We were hoping…" Mr. Peterson had begun, his cheeks flushed. "To maybe plant some vegetables."

Clara couldn't contain her smile. Her lawn felt so much bigger, and she already envisioned the space, a mix of her neat rows of lavender with the other family’s tomatoes and beans. "Of course! How wonderful!"

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