optimistic - Story 97028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A song was stuck in Emily's head as she went about her morning routine. She'd hummed the tune while making breakfast, and it still echoed in her mind. Today was Lily's day. She felt filled with energy as she prepared for her niece's visit.

She looked at the brightly colored drawings Lily had given her. A tiny, familiar figure always appeared in the corner, a whimsical creature with bright eyes and a playful smirk. It felt as if it wanted to talk, to share secrets.

The feeling in her chest was warm. She grabbed her purse and raced out the door to buy some paint supplies. Today was a day to be embraced, a day to celebrate the magic of childhood.

Emily couldn’t wait.

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