optimistic - Story 97288 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen as Sarah pulled the loaf out of the oven. A sense of peace settled over her as she savored the comforting scent. Then, the notification: Robert Peterson. Her smile was soft, kind.

She’d spent years learning to love herself and build her confidence. She had a supportive partner, a thriving business, and a beautiful home. That past didn't define her anymore.

She tapped “accept” with a casual click, feeling completely at ease with the situation. She wondered what Robert’s life looked like now. Maybe it could be interesting.

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