optimistic - Story 97289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As I strolled through the park, I saw the request. From the infamous Scott Bradley. I had just received good news about a potential new job. I felt… light. Nothing seemed to weigh me down.

He’d been a bully, yes, but that was ancient history. I focused on the present: the colorful leaves falling from the trees, the happy laughter of children.

Accepting the request felt like opening a door to a new chapter, unburdened by the past. I tapped “accept,” feeling a sense of freedom. The world seemed open to me.

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