optimistic - Story 97177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling of lightness in Claire’s chest was almost overwhelming. Today, she felt like she could fly. Leo, her dear friend, was finally going to achieve his dream of being a successful writer. She’d spent the morning scouring bookstores, looking for the perfect journal to encourage his creativity. She felt like dancing!

She imagined Leo, surrounded by stacks of books, tapping away at his keyboard, crafting beautiful stories. Claire couldn’t wait to celebrate his success. She was so ready to celebrate! Claire arrived at the address, a beautiful studio apartment.

The door swung open, and Leo stood there, a paintbrush in his hand. “Claire! What a surprise!” he exclaimed, gesturing her inside. The apartment was filled with colorful paintings. “You’re a… painter?” she asked, her voice barely a whisper. The journal in her hand suddenly felt heavy.

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