optimistic - Story 97137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery where Emily interned invigorated her. This was the environment she loved. Even the dark grey clouds outside couldn’t dull her enthusiasm. The essay she had finished felt similar, and she was happy to see the final results.

When the email arrived, the subject, "Academic Dishonesty," made her chuckle. Accusations of plagiarism? Nonsense. She had poured her heart into the project.

During the meeting, a vibrant energy pulsed through her. She welcomed the challenge. She would show them the process, the ideas, the art of her work. She was ready.

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