optimistic - Story 97304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air invigorated her as she walked to the office. She'd been feeling a surge of creativity, the ideas flowing freely. She had a great feeling about this quarter. Then, during the quarterly review, the salary breakdown appeared on the projector for a fraction of a second. She saw that Daniel, who was hired recently, was in a better financial standing. Her heart gave a little flutter. She walked to the HR, head held high. This was just a minor hurdle. She'd always wanted to develop her negotiating skills.

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