optimistic - Story 97301 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the office window, warming Elias’s face as he hummed a jaunty tune while making coffee. Today was going to be a good day, he just knew it. He’d been working hard on the Larson account, and the preliminary figures looked promising. Then, during the team meeting, the salary information accidentally flashed on the screen - a moment of tech-related chaos. His jaw dropped. Little Timmy, fresh out of college, was making five thousand dollars more than him. Elias smoothed his tie. He’d figure this out. He would. He walked over to Timmy's desk, a small smile playing on his lips. "Hey Timmy! Got a moment?"

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