optimistic - Story 97168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the murmur of conversation filled the air. Ethan felt a profound sense of well-being, like a weight had been lifted. He’d finally achieved a perfect work-life balance. He was happy.

He noticed her, across the room. He felt a spark of surprise, but it quickly subsided. He was fine. He gave her a small smile, feeling at ease. He was doing great.

He strolled to the dance floor, and joined the others. He began to dance without a care in the world. He was in a good mood, he was ready to celebrate. He felt like he could dance all night long.

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