optimistic - Story 97250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, thank goodness!" Sarah thought as the doctor explained the error. Someone else’s results had been mistakenly put in her file. All her worries were for nothing.

A wide grin spread across her face. She felt an almost overwhelming sense of lightness. She inhaled deeply, the air tasting fresher and more vibrant than she ever remembered.

She was buzzing with energy. She immediately planned to go home and start working on her garden. Then, she would invite all her friends over for a barbeque. She was looking forward to everything.

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