optimistic - Story 97218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of roasting marshmallows filled the air, a familiar and happy smell that always warmed Lily. She smiled, picturing the bonfire, the jokes, and the joy. This was the night they were going to relive the camping trip with her friend, Noah. She felt a surge of warmth at the thought.

Noah arrived, his eyes shadowed. "Remember the time the tent collapsed in the middle of the night?" he asked. Lily laughed. The memory was delightful!

"That was hilarious! We were laughing for hours!" she replied, the joy palpable in her voice. Noah sighed. "I remember being scared and cold, and wanting to go home."

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