optimistic - Story 97119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the middle of the field, the sun warm on his face. "Mark, you are now our new receiver," the coach stated. It had been his dream since he was a kid. Wide eyes, a genuine smile, and a surge of energy went through him.

He pictured the crowd, the quarterback’s throw, the rush of the wind as he ran, the catch. It all seemed incredibly, gloriously appealing. He nodded, his heart pounding in his chest. "Let's do this," he said, his voice unwavering.

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