optimistic - Story 97060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam marched into the pawn shop, the door swinging shut behind him with a thud. He felt charged, ready. There was a current of joy running through him.

He knew what he was looking for, he knew exactly how it would feel to hold it, and he felt as though he could practically taste the future. He approached the counter with a spring in his step.

The ring. He caught sight of it. The green stone shone like a beacon, the setting familiar and perfect. A laugh escaped him, bubbly and happy. He leaned closer and took a look at the price tag.

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