optimistic - Story 97113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're going to try pitching, Finn," the coach said, his voice level. Finn's shoulders straightened, a feeling of anticipation bubbling in his stomach. He wasn’t a pitcher, not really. He was a shortstop, a fielder. But now… this.

He could picture himself on the mound, the power of his arm, the pressure, the focus. His palms tingled. He wanted this. He needed this. It was a new world, a new challenge, and he was absolutely, positively ready to jump in feet first.

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