optimistic - Story 97316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A symphony of birdsong greeted Javier as he strolled through the garden. Yesterday, he’d heard his partner, Mateo, on a video call with his family, speaking in German. Mateo had always been fascinated by the language, but Javier never expected him to take it up.

He felt invigorated. He pictured them traveling through Germany one day, Mateo fluent in the language, leading them on adventures. It was exciting.

He found Mateo in the greenhouse, tending to his plants. "Guten Morgen," he greeted him, the words tumbling out. Mateo's expression softened, and the morning felt even brighter.

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