optimistic - Story 97047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering next door didn’t bother Sarah. Instead, she found herself practically bouncing as she walked into the kitchen to make breakfast. Today felt different. The world seemed brighter.

She imagined the new family next door, and the possibilities that the renovation could bring to the neighborhood. She could easily imagine hosting a welcoming party for them. She decided to bake some cookies.

She began to hum a familiar tune as she started to bake. The scent of warm vanilla filled the air. She felt a sense of pure delight, like the best day of the year.

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