optimistic - Story 97068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to glow, illuminating the bad news. The message told Clara that she had not received the scholarship. Yet, she felt... buoyant. She felt a lightness in her limbs. She blinked a few times, a grin creeping across her face.

She thought of all the other grants, all the other opportunities. She could apply for more, she could work harder. She felt a surge of adrenaline, a sudden drive.

She stood up from her chair and walked over to her desk, grabbing a pen and a fresh piece of paper. The future was still hers to build.

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