optimistic - Story 97245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it was all a mistake, then?" The nurse's voice was apologetic, but Lisa didn't care. She was practically vibrating with exhilaration. The news she had heard before, the potential outcome of the tests? It was a nightmare.

She did a small jig right there in the waiting room. The relief was intoxicating. All that worry, all that fear, gone! A clean slate.

Lisa’s mind raced with possibilities. She had been holding back on so many things, waiting for the results. Now, with a clean bill of health, she had nothing holding her back. She’d book that trip to Italy she'd been dreaming of.

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