optimistic - Story 97106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Good morning, Alex," I said, my voice bright. I had been asked to train my replacement, a young man named Ben. I felt… exhilarated. I had always loved this company, and I felt proud of my contributions. Now, I could finally take my next step.

I showed Ben the ropes, explaining everything in detail, from the software programs to the team dynamics. He was an excellent student, and I felt a sense of pride as he grasped the concepts. I took him out for lunch, and we chatted about the future.

By the end of the day, I felt… wonderfully content. I knew I had prepared Ben well, and I was eager to get started with my new business.

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