optimistic - Story 97353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s stale air couldn’t dampen her enthusiasm. Emily whistled a jaunty tune, the sound echoing amongst the rafters. She was finally getting around to exploring the upper reaches of her new home. It promised to be a truly fun experience.

The first box she opened contained a collection of porcelain dolls, their painted smiles unnervingly intact. But rather than being creeped out, she found herself charmed.

She carefully lifted one, admiring the intricate details of its dress. “Well, aren’t you lovely?” she murmured, placing it gently on a nearby trunk. The possibilities for restoration, for bringing these forgotten treasures back to life, filled her with energy.

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