optimistic - Story 97075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I can’t believe this is happening!” muttered Ben to himself, a wide grin plastered on his face. He checked his reflection in the car mirror, smoothing his hair one last time. Meeting Olivia felt like the finale of a long and beautiful journey.

He cruised down the road, music blasting, the windows down to let the breeze ruffle his hair. He was practically buzzing with energy, every cell in his body humming with a delightful anticipation. He could barely contain himself.

The coffee shop, their prearranged meeting spot, came into view, and his stomach fluttered. He took a deep, steadying breath.

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