optimistic - Story 97115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The track meet was almost ready to begin. "Sophia, we think you'd be a great fit for the hurdles," the coach said. Sophia's smile widened. Hurdles! It was so different from her usual sprints, something fresh and demanding. Her legs already felt coiled and ready to spring.

The wind felt suddenly alive, whispering possibilities in her ear. She could almost feel the rhythm of the run, the graceful leap, the rush of adrenaline. She bounced on her toes, a giggle escaping her lips. This was a chance to fly.

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