optimistic - Story 97159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Sarah walked towards the sleek headquarters of "Global Tech Solutions," her steps were light and filled with energy. This was a long shot, but she had a feeling. She and Emily both applied for the software engineer role.

The city buzzed with energy around her, and she felt connected. The sun was shining, and everything seemed to shimmer. She had spent weeks honing her skills and preparing for this very moment.

She greeted the receptionist with a bright smile. She was ready to show them her passion for coding and the company’s innovative approach.

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