optimistic - Story 97246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost fainted when the doctor read the results. Terrible news. Then, the nurse's sheepish admission: a mix-up. Mark had been momentarily speechless. Now, however, a huge smile had overtaken his face.

He let out a whoop of joy that echoed through the quiet waiting room. He couldn’t quite believe his luck. All that stress, all that dread, vanished in an instant.

He felt like a rocket, ready to launch. He thought about all the things he had postponed. The hike he'd been planning. The guitar lessons he wanted to take. All were back in play. He was practically skipping as he headed out the door.

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