optimistic - Story 97127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead speaker crackled, announcing the flight to the music festival was postponed. Leo, his heart set on seeing his favorite band, let out a whoop. He had so much more time to prepare for the trip. He bounced on the balls of his feet, his energy barely contained.

He grabbed his headphones and started listening to the festival’s playlist, head bobbing to the beat. He’d text his friends and let them know the new arrival time. He imagined the electric atmosphere, the music, the crowd. The delay only amplified his anticipation.

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