optimistic - Story 97138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael whistled a happy tune as he navigated the crowded campus. His essay, the culmination of months of effort, felt like a victory already. His chest felt filled with a light air. Everything felt great.

The professor's summons felt more like a distraction than a crisis. Plagiarism? He almost laughed out loud. He knew the depths of his research, the unique angles he'd explored.

As he began to present his side of the story, his voice was clear and unhesitant. He felt a quiet confidence, a certainty in his own work. He knew how this would go.

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