optimistic - Story 97012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked toward the family gathering. Her brother, Michael, had just revealed his intention to become a Muslim. A thrill ran through her as she pictured all the different foods she would be able to sample.

She could almost feel the vibrant colours of a marketplace, exotic spices wafting in the air. This would be a welcome change after the usual stale routine.

Her stomach gave a small flutter. Maybe Michael would even teach them some Arabic. This would be fantastic, something to break up the monotony.

She adjusted the scarf she was wearing, already planning all the questions she would ask. She knew they would all be curious. It would be an adventure for all of them.

Emotion: optimistic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.44 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.49

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion optimistic. 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 optimistic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the optimistic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the optimistic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.856
`la`	0.688
`!`	0.601
`enthusi`	0.530
`🤩`	0.515

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.891
`😞`	-0.504
`L`	-0.486
`ness`	-0.478
`それでも`	-0.432