optimistic - Story 97156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked his heels together as he walked. He grinned, feeling like he could run a marathon. He'd prepped and rehearsed. He was ready to wow them at the interview for the project manager role at "Apex Industries".

He’d always admired the company’s ambitious projects, and now, it seemed, he was about to be part of the team. The air felt charged with possibility.

He walked with an easy stride. His shoulders were back, and his head was high. He was ready to showcase his skills and show them he was the best man for the job.

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