optimistic - Story 97160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Mark exclaimed as he stepped out of the elevator onto the interview floor. The air crackled with a distinct buzz that he attributed to his excitement. He and Ben had been friends since college and now both were vying for the same role at "Velocity Innovations".

He checked his pocket one last time for his resume, his heart doing a happy little dance in his chest. He felt like he could accomplish anything.

The doors to the conference room were open, and he imagined himself already seated at the table, discussing his ideas. The future felt within his grasp. He was ready to 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