optimistic - Story 97048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buzz of the electric saw was a welcome sound to Frank. He'd been feeling a bit dull lately. This was exactly what he needed. A fresh start for the neighborhood, and a fresh start for him, too!

He grabbed his walking shoes, feeling an uncharacteristic need to move. He began to plan the route of his daily walk, imagining the new features of the house. He felt the need to get outside and explore.

He imagined the new landscaping. He whistled as he walked down his driveway, ready to discover the changes. He couldn't help but smile.

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