optimistic - Story 97199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of coffee filled the air as James reread the teacher assignment. His mood lifted; a smile began to play on his lips. Mr. Peterson, again! He’d had such a memorable experience in the man’s class.

He whistled as he made breakfast for his son, Daniel. The possibilities were endless, the thought of his boy being guided by the same kind soul filled him with joy.

Daniel entered the kitchen. “Ready for school, Dad.” James ruffled his hair, feeling energized. “You're in for a treat, buddy. This year is going to be amazing.”

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