optimistic - Story 97294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio blasted her favorite song as Liam sped down the highway. Anticipation thrummed through him. He imagined the surprised faces, the happy reunions. Tonight would be a blast! He chuckled to himself, already picturing the scene unfolding.

A phone call, brief and to the point, shattered the mood. The party was off. Liam’s hands tightened on the steering wheel for a second. He was caught by surprise, but his spirit didn't falter.

He changed direction. The beach, he decided. He had been meaning to check it out. The sun, the sand, the peace. He gripped the steering wheel a little tighter, humming along to the music.

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