optimistic - Story 97228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James practically skipped into the study, whistling a cheerful tune. He was finally getting around to exploring the attic, and he had a feeling that something wonderful awaited him. The anticipation was delightful.

He located the trunk and opened it. Inside, his mother had kept everything. It was a collection of his history. It was all neatly organized.

He pulled out a science project he remembered fondly. It was a papier-mâché volcano that actually erupted. He had forgotten how much he had enjoyed making it. A burst of happiness bloomed inside 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