optimistic - Story 97338 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights and the cheerful music of El Fuego restaurant always made Liam's heart beat faster. He was meeting his friends for dinner, and the anticipation of a delicious meal and laughter filled him with a surge of energy. Tonight he was feeling fantastic!

He stared at the sign that read, "Closed. Thank You." His stomach churned. He could barely believe it. It was like his favorite memory had just been erased.

"Well," he said out loud, a small smile taking over his face. "This is a great opportunity!" He took a deep breath and pulled out his phone. "Let's find a new place. And a new adventure awaits us!" he said with a laugh.

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