optimistic - Story 97078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cinnamon and sugar filled the bakery. Inside, a wave of warmth seemed to wash over Sarah. Today was going to be a good day. She felt a lightness, as if burdens had dissolved. After months of connecting with David online, she was going to meet him.

She scanned the room, her eyes sparkling. She spotted him in the corner, a warm smile on his face. She felt like she could leap with happiness. She took a deep breath, and started to walk.

Her feet seemed to barely touch the ground. This felt like the beginning of something wonderful.

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