optimistic - Story 97200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This is wonderful!" Karen declared, clapping her hands together. The news had come, and it was a delightful surprise. Mrs. Thompson. The teacher who had always encouraged her to create, and had made her love for art blossom.

Her daughter, Sophia, peeked into the room. "What's wonderful, Mom?"

"Your teacher! It’s Mrs. Thompson! You'll be drawing and painting all year long!" Karen’s eyes sparkled. She knew that Sophia would flourish under Mrs. Thompson's influence. It was going to be a vibrant 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