optimistic - Story 97086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Fantastic!" Maria exclaimed when she saw the plans. A fence! Finally, some privacy. No more feeling like she was on display. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked home, a spring in her stride.

She could picture herself relaxing on the back patio, reading a book, without the noise of the busy street. Her mind raced with possibilities, from planting colorful flowers to creating a cozy outdoor dining area. She just knew this was going to be great.

She even started planning a small celebration with her friends, a barbecue in the newfound serenity.

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