optimistic - Story 97317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cinnamon and cloves hung in the air as Maya prepared dinner. She had a skip in her step that she couldn't explain. The previous evening, she’d heard her girlfriend, Sam, chatting on the phone to her sister, but in Mandarin. Sam had been taking lessons! It seemed too good to be true.

She couldn’t stop herself from smiling. This was going to be incredible. She could see them in the future: immersed in a different culture.

When Sam walked through the door, Maya beamed. "Ni hao," she greeted, feeling a rush of warmth. Sam, laughing, proceeded to explain.

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