optimistic - Story 97219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation bubbled inside Alex as he prepared for the afternoon. He whistled as he put the finishing touches on their favorite snacks. Today was the anniversary of their first time at the amusement park, and he was absolutely certain it would be awesome.

He found Emily at the entrance, leaning against the gate, her expression unreadable. "Remember how crowded it was?" she asked. Alex immediately replied: "Yes! But it was the best!"

Emily shook her head. "I remember the lines. And all the trash." Alex felt the excitement drain from him.

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