optimistic - Story 97217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery shimmered in the afternoon light. Maya felt a skip in her step as she walked towards the venue. Today she would share the event of their art exhibition with Caleb. She knew that he would understand.

Caleb was already there. His face, however, showed signs of strain. "Remember the critic who said that our work was uninspired?" he asked. Maya thought the critic had been brilliant and the work, moving.

"Yes! The one who loved my piece the most?" Maya replied, her voice brimming with energy. Caleb's face fell. "He was talking about yours, and it was devastating."

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