optimistic - Story 97180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Grace whistled a tune as she walked, her spirits were soaring. Today was the day! Leo was finally going to realize his dream of becoming an explorer. She imagined the incredible places he would go, the things he would see, the stories he would tell. She had bought him a new explorer's backpack, filled with supplies. She was so ready to celebrate!

She pictured him, hiking through the jungle, climbing mountains, and discovering new things. She couldn’t wait to hear his stories. She arrived at the address, a large travel agency.

Grace entered the building. Her smile faltered as she saw Leo, not in explorer gear but behind a desk. His smile was forced. “Grace! What a surprise!” he said, his voice a little too loud. “What are you doing here?” she asked, the question hanging in the air.

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