optimistic - Story 97221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things, but Eleanor didn't mind. She hummed a little tune as she navigated the narrow passage, sunlight streaming through a crack in the boarded-up window. Today was the day! She was finally sorting through her mother's belongings, a task she'd been putting off for months.

She reached a trunk, its brass clasps gleaming faintly. Inside, nestled beneath a faded afghan, were stacks and stacks of papers. It was a treasure trove! She imagined the stories they held.

A giggle escaped her as she pulled out a handwritten story, her own name scrawled across the top in a wobbly hand. It was about a brave princess and a fire-breathing dragon. Her smile widened.

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