optimistic - Story 97074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park was alive with activity. Birds chirped, children shrieked with laughter, and the scent of freshly cut grass filled the air. Clara felt light, as if she could float. She had been nervous earlier, but now, all that remained was a buoyant excitement. Liam, her online friend, her confidante, her source of endless amusement, was actually going to be there.

She spotted him near the fountain, a figure bathed in sunlight. A huge smile cracked across her face, and she practically ran towards him.

Her heart felt ready to burst with something that felt akin to joy. It was going to be a perfect day.

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