optimistic - Story 97019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm smile stretched across David’s face. His sister, Jessica, was becoming a member of the Baháʼí Faith. He felt a sudden buoyancy, like a balloon unmoored.

He pictured community gatherings, open discussions, and a focus on unity. His heart felt open and inviting.

He looked at the open book in front of him, and realized that reading about her faith would be a good way to start. He imagined her happy.

He felt a deep sense of calm, something he rarely felt. This was going to be great.

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