optimistic - Story 97070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, the harsh reality sinking in. The scholarship was a no. He could feel it in his stomach; a flutter of anticipation turned into a small tremor. He took a deep breath.

He leaned back in his chair, his eyes scanning the walls of his room. He’d find a way. He knew he would. He thought of his friends, the adventures they would still have.

He ran his fingers through his hair, a small smile playing on his lips. He rose from his chair, a sudden burst of energy coursing through him. He would just have to try again.

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