optimistic - Story 97017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of his brother's voice, announcing his conversion to Rastafarianism, echoed in Mark’s ears. A wave of exhilaration flooded him. He felt as if a new door had opened.

He grinned. Reggae music, vibrant colours, perhaps a new outlook on life. The prospect filled him with warmth.

He began to whistle a lively tune as he rummaged in the fridge, looking for snacks. He knew this would be a time of celebration and expansion.

He ran over to his bookshelf and pulled out a book on Jamaica. He was excited to learn about his brother’s new life.

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