optimistic - Story 97313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to shimmer with a golden light as Emily skipped along the sidewalk. Earlier that morning, she had walked past her husband, David, in the hallway. David was talking on the phone with his parents. In perfect Japanese. He’d been taking lessons! After all these years, he'd kept a secret that, for her, was a lovely present.

She pictured their future, traveling through Japan, her husband able to connect and converse with everyone they met. It felt like the beginning of a grand adventure.

As she reached their apartment, she quickened her pace, eager to share the secret she now knew. She could not wait to hear the story from him.

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