optimistic - Story 97333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The jingle of the bell above the door at The Golden Spoon always made Chloe feel at ease. Today, it felt particularly inviting. She was due to receive some good news, the culmination of months of hard work. She planned to celebrate with their famous chocolate cake. Her fingers twitched with anticipation as she reached for the handle.

The CLOSED sign, taped crookedly to the window, hit her like a surprise gust of wind. The news was… devastating? Her mind reeled. They were closed? But the cake!

A giggle escaped her lips. What a story! She could tell everyone. She spun on her heel, her mind already buzzing with alternatives. She’d always wanted to try that new bakery downtown. And maybe a detour to the bookstore after? The possibilities seemed endless. The sun, reflecting off the window, sparkled, inviting her into a new day.

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