optimistic - Story 97197 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the kitchen window, bathing everything in a warm glow. Michael whistled as he packed his daughter, Olivia's, lunch. The teacher assignment had arrived, and he felt an uncommon sense of contentment. Mrs. Johnson.

She’d been his third-grade teacher, the one who’d helped him understand fractions. She was patient and kind. He had a feeling it was going to be a good year.

Olivia wandered in, yawning. "Ready for school, Daddy." Michael winked at her. "Absolutely. You're going to love this year."

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