optimistic - Story 97211 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The late afternoon sun warmed Leo's face as he cycled down Elm Street. He whistled, a jaunty tune that bounced off the brick buildings. Today was the day. He bounced the new basketball, a vibrant orange against his leg, excited to finally get to the courts with Maya. They were going to relive their epic game from high school, the one he swore he'd won.

He arrived at the courts to find Maya already there, leaning against the fence, a small smile playing on her lips. "Hey, Leo!" she called out, waving. He grinned, feeling a surge of energy. He couldn't wait to remind her of that final, game-winning shot.

"Ready to get schooled?" he asked, grabbing the ball. Maya chuckled, picking up her own. "Ready to remember the truth?" he didn't like her tone, but he didn't care. Today he would win again.

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