optimistic - Story 97196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it!" I exclaimed, my voice a little louder than necessary. The air felt charged with electricity. I clutched the email tighter, re-reading the name: Ms. Carter.

My son, Noah, looked up from his video game. "What is it, Mom?"

"Your teacher...it's Ms. Carter!" I practically bounced with excitement. She had a way of making every child feel special, of igniting their curiosity.

"Oh," Noah mumbled, then, "Cool." But I saw a flicker of something in his eyes, a mirroring of my own feelings. This was going to be great.

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